This is an analysis of the poem Are Ye Right, There, Michael? that begins with:
You may talk of Columbus's sailing
Across the Atlantical Sea...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXacXcdd CcXXec aXadfbfb dgg CcXXeC ecechihi dbf ccjjeC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,8,3,6,8,3,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010010 01010001 111010110 0101111 111010010 001011011 111011010 11111011 11110001 11011001 111110111 11111010101 1011010 11101110 111110 111 1111010010 101101100 1011011010 101010100 01010110 01011101 0011010010 11101001 10 11111111 01110001 111110111 11101011101 1101100 10101100 1101110 101 1100111010 01111001 1010111110 101010001 11111011 11111001 111010011 101101001 10 11110101 11110111 111110111 111111101001 11101010 10101010 101110 101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; ye, it, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, perhaps are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines startin' is repeated).
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