This is an analysis of the poem The Sailor, Who Had Served In The Slave Trade. that begins with:
He stopt,--it surely was a groan
That from the hovel came!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb defe gdad fhgh haia aehe ijkj haja gele fjfj Embm Egbg aaXa hded afjf edcd dfkf fhdh ljhj ejfj hjej jafa fafa ghbh Xaha Xfef ajmj aefe ajlj haXaXgehe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 100101 11110100 010101 01000101 111101 11110101 010101 11000101 010111 010101010 111101 10010101 0100111 11011111 010101 11010101 0100101 011101101 010101 11010001 111101 11011011 010001 11110101 011111 11110101 110101 11110111 111101 11110111 111111 00011111 010101 01010101 1101001 11110101 110111 11111111 111101 110101001 1100101 11111101 0101001 110101001 110101 11110101 111101 11110101 101110 11011101 011111 1111011 010101 111111001 110111 11110101 100111 11011101 111100 11101111 11011 11110100 100101 11010001 111111 11110111 110101 11010101 110101 11011101 110001 01011101 111111 11111011 110101 11111111 1010111 11111111 011101 11000101 010111 11010111 111111 11101111 111101 0101101 111101 10111111 101111 11011111 010101 11111011 101101 10110111 110111 11010111 110001 1111111 111101 11011100 111101 110101001 110111 11101111 010111 11110111 110101 01011101 10011 11111011 011111 11110011 111101 11110101 111111 11010101 1111010 11111111 1110010 01110111 110101 11110101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 124
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, i, and, to, where, her, fainter, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, oh, fainter, i are repeated.
The author used the same words he, she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word cry at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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