This is an analysis of the poem Song Of A Mad Girl, Whose Lover Has Died At Sea that begins with:
Under the green white blue of this and that and the other,
That and the other, and that and the other, for ever and ever,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXabbabcdbefcebcebdecfcghhhiXigcjgkkXclljKGjjjKGkg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011100111010 11010111010110110 10011110101100 1111011010110110 01011001101110010 1101111 01101101 101010 011101 11111011111001 1111011001101 1101111 11001101 1001101 001101101101101 1001101 101011 011100110111001 1101011 010111110101001 10101001 101011 0011101110111011 101101001 111111101 111111101 11101101 11111111 1111111 1111000101110 0110101101 00101010 110111111011111 10011111 11110111 0011100111 111111 1010110111 111111 0111001 1111 1111 0101111 11111001 111111 01101011 11111111 11011101 11111001 111111 1011111001 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2061
- Average number of words per stanza: 432
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, other, never, to, back, all, day, i, or, he, they, him, you, down, up are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, he, when are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines breast is repeated).
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