This is an analysis of the poem The Captain's Wife that begins with:
I do not say the day is long and weary,
For while thou art content to be away,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBBa cddc eXXX feef ghbhbgb didi ccgbgjbj aBBa kckc ljjeel fdmXf laliknkinfoof mmbdbb llbldlbbb gpgppXigg nfnffee bbbqXXqbbaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,7,4,8,4,4,6,5,13,6,9,9,7,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101110 1111100001 1001111111 11101101110 1111010101 0111110111 1111010111 11110111 1101010101 11010110101 1101111101 1110110010 1011010001 1111111111 1100010011 1011000101 111101 111111 1101110111 1110010111 1101111111 111101 1110010101 1111110101 0011010101 1100110111 1111111111 1101011101 01111 1111010111 0101011100 110111 1101110101 1111011111 11111001 11110101110 1111100001 1001111111 11101101110 1111001111 1111110101 0101011001 11010001 111101 1111110101 011111 11010101 110101 0111110001 111111 1100111111 010111 110100101100 11011101 111101 1111010100 111101 111111 010101 0100111101 0101111101 1101001101 011111 010101 010111 111001 110101010101 1111 1111010111 1101010011 1111111111 1111110111 1100111111 110101 101101 0101001101 1111110111 010101 01010101111 1101011111 0101011111 11011101 1101111101 0101011101 1111110101 11010010111 111111 1101010 1101001 1111010100 010011 1111110101 0110110101 0101011100 1111010011 1100010101 110111 1101010001 1100110111 011100101 111101 1100111111 1101 1111100 010101 110101 110101 1111011110 11010101010 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 126
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less 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, as, nor, of, weary, day, oh are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, nor, and, oh are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day is repeated).
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