This is an analysis of the poem The First Chantey that begins with:
Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her;
Haling her dumb from the camp, took her and bound her.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc aaaa aadd bbdd aadd ddee ffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100110110 100100110110 110111111110 100100110110 110101111011 101101110111 111100110110 101100110110 111101111010 101100110010 101110111010 110100111110 110111111010 101110110110 111100110110 101111111110 110111110111 100100110011 101111111110 101110110110 101100110010 101000110110 110101110010 110100111010 0110111010010 101100111010 100101110110 101101111010 110101110110 110101110110 100100110110 101101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, i, and, we, he, our, to, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word back is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, us are repeated).
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- summary of The First Chantey;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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