This is an analysis of the poem Admiral Death that begins with:
Boys, are ye calling a toast to-night?
(Hear what the sea-wind saith)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabaaab cXcbdddX aXabeeeb eXebfffb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100101 110111 11010111 1101001 110010111 110010111 101010111 1011001 101110101 110111 011010111 11101001 10110111 10011111 110100111 111001 101110101 110111 10110111001 1111001 1010101101 101111101 1010010111 1111001 11011101 110111 111111001 1101001 11111111 1110101101 1011110101 11101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; he's, by, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he's, by, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word death at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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