This is an analysis of the poem The Mine-Sweepers that begins with:
Dawn off the Foreland -- the young flood making
Jumbled and short and steep -- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdX aeaecdX afafcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001110 101111 10010111010 101001 1000100011 1110101 11100101010010110100 11010001110 1011001 1101101110 1010101 100110011 1110101 10100101010010110100 11010001110 1010101 11110011010 100111 100100011 11101 11100101010010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 304
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word i at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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