This is an analysis of the poem Channel Firing that begins with:
That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XaXa XbXb cXca dede fgfX dXdX gXgX dhdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 11110111 11010101 11010101 11011100 010101001 01110101 01110001 0111011110 010010111 11011101 01010100 101010101 111101110 111111 1111100110 1000101010 1101011 1000101010 11111100 1011000101 11010001 11011111 110101010 1111011010 001101010 1110111110 0101001000 1100100101 1000101010 11010101 10111101110 010101010 101100001 111111010 110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, for, i are repeated.
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