This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of Hank The Finn that begins with:

Now Fireman Flynn met Hank the Finn where lights of Lust-land glow;
"Let's leave," says he, "the lousy sea, and give the land a...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXX ccdddddd ddddXd eeddffggXd bbhhcchhii jjggiiddXXXf ffggdddd hhhhaXkklliicc eejjddmm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,6,10,10,12,8,14,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11011101110111 10100111101110101 01100101010001 11010100010111 110111011111010 101110110110111110 11110101110101 11010101110101 100101111110101 11111101110011 11010101111101 1010111010111001 11011111110111 11011101111111 11011101010101 110011101010001 10101110111001101 1110101110111 110111111101110 11011101111111 1100111101110101 11010111010101 010111010111101 101010101100101 10100111101110001 110101000010101 11111101010101 01111001111101 110101011101011 11011101101111 10110101011111 11110101111001 10110101110101 11110101010101 11010100010101 11011101111001 11110101010101 11110101010001 11110101010101 11011000011001 11010111010101 11010101010101 01010101010101 01011101010001 10011111110101 11111111010101 01011001111111 01010101010101 11010101010101 11010101011111 1111001010101010 11110011011101 11111001111101 11011111010101 010011111010101 01110101111111 11110101110101 10100101110001 11011101010101 1111010111011 01110101010101 11010101011101 1011101110011101 100010111010101 11110101111111 011100110101110 11110101010101 11110101111111 1111101110101 11010101011101 11111111111111 01010101110001 01011111011001 11011101110101 01011101010001 11010110110111 11011111110101 11011101110101 01010111010101 11010101110101 11111101110101 11111101111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 568
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • Amount of lines: 82
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and, to, he, there, i, then, of, his, you, rope are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, we, his, a are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word told at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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