This is an analysis of the poem O, Falmouth Is A Fine Town that begins with:
O Falmouth is a fine town with ships in the bay,
And I wish from my heart it's there I was to-day;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbAAAX ccXXD eeffD ccaXAAAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,5,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001101001 111011011101 110111110101 100110110011 10111011100 110110110101 1011011010101 111010011 0101010010101 001101111101 11111110101010 10101011110101 10111 1000011110101 100001111101 0011011010101 1110101101101 10111 1101010010001 1101010011101 1011111011101 10101110011 10111011100 110110110101 1011011010101 111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, from, home, and, his, to, it, our are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word home at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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