This is an analysis of the poem Lucille that begins with:
Of course you've heard of the Nancy Lee, and how she sailed away
On her famous quest of the Arctic flea, to the wilds of Hudson's Bay?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXeeXc ffaadXgXdXff hhffaaiihXjjaa hhaakkeXaaggiiffaaee ddhXhh hhbbdXeehhbbffXaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,14,20,6,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100101111101 10101001010010101 1010101010010101 101011110110100111 111011110111110101 111011110100110101 11101101010010111 101111010110110101 11101101110010111 1010110101001010101 1010110101110100 101010010110100101 1011101011010101 10100111010100101 101111011110101101 101101011110100101 1110101010100101 101110011110101110 1111110101110101101 1111111011011111010 101010010111110101 001001010110011010 111111011111111 0101001010110101 10101110111111101 1110110101101111101 111011100111111001 11111101111100101 1100101011100111 01001110110101001 11101101011010101 1111010011100111 100100111111111 111011011100101010 1111001011110101 1101101011011111 11101101011110111 11101110011110101 1111111011111001 11100001011110101 0010110101110111 1010111011110111 1110111001110001 11001010110101101 11101011011100111 11101001011110010000 1010101011011101 11111010011110101 101110111011110111 11101101111111101 11011101011011101 1101101010010101 00101101011010111 101100010100101101 1111000101111011 10111111011111111 11101101011111101 11110111001111101 10111111111010111 101101101011110101 1011101011110011 1111011110101011010 11110010111110101 1010111111011101 110100101011110101 11111110010010111 11111111011010101 01011100111101101 1101011111111101 01101101011111010 110110101110101 0101011011110101 11101111011110101 1001011001010101011 1101111111010101 1000011000101111010 1101111011110101 10101010110100111 10100111010111101011 111000010111100101 1101001011010101 11101111011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 994
- Average number of words per stanza: 199
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 72 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and, we, as, i, ye, my, i'd, it, they, he, she, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, but are repeated.
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- summary of Lucille;
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