This is an analysis of the poem Ye Mariners Of England that begins with:

1 Ye Mariners of England
2 That guard our native seas,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbcdedfd bghgXdedfd XebeXdidfd acXcbdhdid
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100010 1111101 111110100 1010101 1110010101 1010101 111101 11010111 1101010111 11010111 10100110 11101001 1101011101 1110111 111110101 1110111 1111101 11010111 1101010111 11010111 101001110 11100101 1010100101 1010101 101000101 1110101 1111101 11010111 1101010111 11010111 101001010 1110101 111010101 11010101 111110100 1111111 1001011 11011101 11010010111 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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; to is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word blow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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