This is an analysis of the poem To The Man Of The High North that begins with:
My rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming
I've drifted, silver-sailed, on seas of dream,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb cdcd efef ghgXhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100110 1101011101 10010101010 100101001 11010101100 0111000101 10110101010 0101000111 01010101011 0101000101 01111101111 1110011101 01011101010 1011011101 01010111010 0100110101 10111010110 1011000111 11111101010 1010010101110 1011010111 1011011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, then are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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