This is an analysis of the poem The Captain And The Mermaids that begins with:
I SING a legend of the sea,
So hard-a-port upon your lee!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdb eeXffc ddceXc gghaah ccigXX aaaeea Xjcccc eekcck ccXeee eejXcj aaahhX aXecce jjfggf llXhhX bbiXci hhjffj fXXhhX hhajjX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001 11010111 011101 11010101 00010111 010111 011100101 10011101 110101 11001101 11110101 110101 11110101 11011101 010111 11110111 1110100010 010111 11010101 11111001 01101 11110111 110101001 010011 101010111 11110111 110101 11110001 11011100 1101010 11010111 01010101 110111 01010101 11011111 100001 1101011010 11001101 110101 11011101 01111111 010111 11011101 11110111 110101 01000111 11010111 110101 01010111 01111101 110101 11011111 01010101 11001001 11010101 11110101 010101 101110101 01010011 111101 101010101 01010110 111001 01011101 110101001 0100100 01010101 11011110 110001 01011111 11110101 110101 01110101 11011101 110101 11110101 11001101 110101 11011111 11010111 110001 01011101 11011101 110110 11110101 01010101 110101 11010101 11110101 111101 11010101 010010101 011101 01000001 11010111 0100011 01010111 1010101110 0111001 01110111 1011001010 1101010 11011101 11011101 110101 101010101 11110111 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words great, and, a, or are repeated.
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