This is an analysis of the poem Harry Morant that begins with:
Harry Morant was a friend I had
In the years long passed away,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dada aeae fbfB ghgh gfgf didi cbcb jgjg gaga kaka gcgc cjcj jhjhXdbdB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101010111 0001101 010011101 0111001 10011101 00100101 1110100101 1101101 110111101 11101101 1101111101 0101001 101010111 1110111 010011111 1110101 1001111010 110111 00101101010 101011 110111101 0111101 101111001 1100101 110010111 111011010 100100101 11001110 111100101 10110111 111100101 00100111 010010111 1110111 1100000111 0100111 111100111 1110111 011111000101 11110101 110101111 1110101 100100111 1110111 01111101 10100101 110101101 1111111 110101001 11101101 111011101 1100111 1100100101 1011111 1110110101 10110110 111111101 10110101 01111111 1011111 0100100111 1011101 1111100101 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Harry Morant;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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