This is an analysis of the poem Drake's Drum that begins with:
Drake he's in his hammock an' a thousand miles away,
(Capten, art tha sleepin' there below?) ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBabXbXb cbcbXbXX dBdbXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001010101001 101110101 11001101101 1101011101 101001010101 1101010111 101110101110 11111101111101 1110101110101 101110101 101011111111 1101011101 101101011101 111110101 0011101101110 110101011101100 1100101011001 101110101 110011100101 1101011101 11101111101 111110101 1011110111 111111101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', him, call are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word call is repeated.
The author used the same word drake at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ago at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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