This is an analysis of the poem On Deck that begins with:
Midnight in the mid-Atlantic. On deck.
Wrapped up in themselves as in thick veiling...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabc aXdaed fdbgdb deXdeX XgXXgf bdhbdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1100101011 1100110110 1111000011 1110011 001111010 10110101 11011101 10010101 110101011 11110111 0101001011 1011101010 110100111 1100110001 11000101 1111111 11110101 10111011110 0010100100 110010111 001010110 110101110 110011111 01100101 001001011010 1011101 00101101001000 1010011111 100111010 10001111 1011100011010 0100100101 11111101010 10011101 011010111 00111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of On Deck;
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