This is an analysis of the poem To The Man-Of-War-Bird that begins with:
THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm,
Waking renew'd on thy prodigious pinions,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabaX aXXcXX dcdbXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110101 10011101010 10110101100 110101111101 10111101010 1001010111111 110101101101 1111 100111110101 010101111101011 010101010101 010101100 1101100 1101011111 0101011111101 1101110111 11011001101101110 11111101110100 110101011101 0001010011111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; far, thou, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, thou are repeated.
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