This is an analysis of the poem Mermaid that begins with:
Hey when I was a lad in fishing town an old man said to me
You can spend your life your jolly life just sailing on the sea...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbcdc aaeeeffgggcdc hhiiijjXcccdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010101111101 111111101110101 11110111011111111 11110001110111101 0111101 101011111010111 111110111111110111 11110101011110101 11110010111101111 1101100110101 1101001111110101 1110101001110101 1110101 1101111111100111 101010101110111 11111101010101 001001111110101101 10101101 10101111010111 111110111111101 1110111111101101 11111111110101 1110100101110101 010111001110010010 111011110111101110 11101110 11111001100111 111110111101001001 11010111111110 101011110111010111 1010111 101111101011111 01000101111110111 1111010101011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 683
- Average number of words per stanza: 148
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, you, and, she, her, part, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, and, yes are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines swim, before, fish, her, girl are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word tail at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Mermaid;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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