This is an analysis of the poem Soldier An' Sailor Too that begins with:
As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the ~Crocodile~,
I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up in the Reg'lars' style.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXccc ddeccccc XdddXcXccc ddccbccc eeacDCcXcc dfafdcccccDC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,10,8,10,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111000010110101 1101101111100101 11100101011 11101111 111010110010101101 1110111111110101 10011010111001001 10100101000101101 110111110010101101 11010001010100101 11011001001 111001101 1111010110010101101 1100011011010101111 111111101110101101 10100101000101101 11001011001 1100001 1111011101 11100101 111111010010100100 111010110010101101 1111001111100 11101101 1111111111011101 11111010000101101 111111011011100101 1100111000110101 1100111100110100101 011010110010101101 11011111001 11101111 1101100110111101111 11101100100101101 01110010010100101 010111110011111001 101101001001 00111001 1110010110010 101101 11111011011101111 11011011001 1101101 111111001001101101 11011011011 101111110 11001111001 111011001 101111011111 10111101 111101010010101101 110011101111 1110111 110010110011001001 1110010110010 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 535
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, 'e, an', 'em, in, for, they, to, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words an', they, their are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word too at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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