This is an analysis of the poem The Liner She's A Lady that begins with:
The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds --
The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband, an' 'e gives 'er all she needs;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa bXBb ccdd bbaa eebb bbXX bXBb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101110111 01111101111111 11010111110111 1101111101111 11111010101 101110110101 10011011101 11111010001 01010101010111 10111100110101 01111101111101 11010111110111 01010101110111 01111101111101 11010111110101 11011101110111 0101010100111 01111101111111 110101111101001 11011110111101 0101010101101 11100111111101 0111110101101 11010111111111 111111010101 101110110101 10011011101 111111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (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; an', down are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is 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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