This is an analysis of the poem The Dancing Seal that begins with:
When we were building Skua Light--
The first men who had lived a night ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdbdceefggffghhddbbcc gggaiajjkkc cddggicckkc cgjjjcilffmlggbm XhafafhcXbkcfdfbbkkfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,11,11,16,21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 01111101 011111 11110101 01011101 11111101 111011101 11111101 11010101 101010101 01110101 11000111 10110100 111111001 01111101 11010101 1101101111 11010101 11011111 11010001 10110111 01110101 110011101 11010001 11110101 11010111 01010101 11110111 11110100 11110111 111101001 11110111 11011111 11011111 10010101 11010001 11111101 01110101 11100101 10110111 11011100 11011101 11110001 11110111 00110111 10010001 11010101 11010101 01011101 11011101 11010101 10010101 11110100 11010101 11010111 0101 0101 111101 11111101 11111110 11110111 111101 1001 0101 0111 0111 100100101 010111 10011111 01010101 1111011 11011111 11111101 01110111 11011101 11010101 11010101 11010101 01010111 00110111 11100101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 468
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and, to, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, the are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Dancing Seal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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