This is an analysis of the poem The Child And The Mariner that begins with:
A dear old couple my grandparents were,
And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdebfgghijXijcXgkihhhkXgccXhhlichcchmgnXdbmiobgXbjgcodpiicgqdojcbdghghlgiiigXohehcibhcclcbnhkiokhbhlojikk gXchjoiiqkaialgkgbihcXqhihogn giblicXXijlhgcijbpfmc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 107,29,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111011100 11011111010 0111010101 1111011100 1101100100 1101010101 1110011101 1111110101 1011111111 0111011111 0111011111 1101111111 1101110101 0101111101 1101010001 1001010101 1101110101 11101101101 1101010101 0011011111 1101001101 1111110101 1111011101 1101010011 0101010101 1101001111 0101111101 1011100101 1101110111 110011111001 0101011101 11001111101 01010111100 01001001101 1111110111 1011011111 10111100101 1101001101 0111001101 0111011111 1101110101 1111111101 0111010101 1101110101 111111011 1111000110 0111010001 1101110111 1111100101 1011010111 1011010101 011101110101 1101010111 0101010101 1111011101 1011000111 0111011111 0111010011 1001011111 0101011111 0101101110 1101110111 0100010110 1111011101 1111110111 1001110111 0101011101 0100111111 1111111111 1111111101 1101100110 11010101101 11011101001 0101111100 1111110101 110011111 1101110101 1101010101 1101010100 1101101111 1111000111 1111011100 1101011101 1101111111 11001110111 11110111111 1111111101 1111010111 0101011111 1101011111 0101101111 1111110111 1001010111 1111000101 0111001001 0101010101 0101010111 10110100101 0101110101 1111011111 1101101101 1101110111 10111100101 1011010011 1101110101 11010101101 110101 1111 1011010011 0100111111 1011001101 11001010101 1100010001 1100110101 1101010101 0111110101 1111110111 11010001110 11110110101 11011001010 1101101111 1111010101 0011011111 1111010101 1111111101 0111000001 1101111101 1101111111 0111010101 1101110111 11001001101 0101000101 1101100111 1101110111 1111010101 100101 1011 0111011101 110101111 1101101111 1101110001 1100110111 1101010100 1111110101 0101011101 1101011101 01000010101 1111000101 0111011101 1100110101 01111111011 1101110111 1101100101 1111010101 1101111101 1111010101 1001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2333
- Average number of words per stanza: 432
- Amount of lines: 157
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, of, his, on, knew, how, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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- summary of The Child And The Mariner;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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