This is an analysis of the poem Colonel Martin that begins with:

THE Colonel went out sailing,
He spoke with Turk and Jew,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdefeAghihjiXXA XXXgXckikajifihXXiAhjhjjihiAlifihlhXA XficifjhjA XedXXiiaiA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,37,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101110 110111 01010101 11111 110100111 111101 11011101 111101 0101110 11010010 111101 111101011 110001 1101011 111111 1111110 00111 0101110 1 0101010 011101 11010100 00101 0101110 1100001 1010101 10101 0101110 010110111 1110101 11010111 110101 11011101 10011 110110 1110101 0101110 11101111 111101 11110101 110101 11110011 11101 01111011 0010001 0101110 0110101 1111101 01011100 1101 01010101 101111 10010101 1001001 0101110 1 1111110 0100101 10111101 010101 1111110 111101 11110101 011101 0101110 1 1011111 111111 1101011 110111 111011111 10101 1111010 0011101 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 527
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 75
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; with, and, he, went are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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

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