This is an analysis of the poem Battle-Scene From The Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer that begins with:
It beguiles—
This little Odyssey...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacXabab dbXedXefef cgfgcggfgf hijihiijij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100 010100 011100 10010010 10101 110101 01001110 110110 1010 0011110 0101 010010 1001010 1100011 0111010 10110 10101 0101101 0101 010101 1111 011011 11111 1110101 1111011 11100 110111 111101 1111 111111 1101 111101 110101 10011 111111 1101101 11001101 110001 1010 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one, thrust are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, one, for are repeated.
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