This is an analysis of the poem Sailor Son that begins with:
When you come home I'll not be round
To welcome you....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababab cdcdcd efefXfXeaeaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 0101 11100101 1111 11010111 0101 11010101 0101 10011011 1101 11111101 1101 11010101 0101 01010101 0101 01010100 1101 11111111 0101 11010111 0101 11000111 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, your are repeated.
The author used the same word i'll at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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