This is an analysis of the poem The Darned Mounseer that begins with:
I shipped, d'ye see, in a Revenue sloop,
And, off Cape Finisteere,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXAXbcddXAX adeeXAXXcbbXAX fdggXAXecfXXAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001011 111100 010011 010101 11110110 11 1110110 11100010111001 11000101 010101 1110001 110000101 11 110000101 11101111111 1011111 1110011 1010101 11100110 11 1100110 10101110110001 001001101 110111 1110101 1110101 11 010001010 1110111110101 1110100001 110001 1111101 111000110 11 111000110 1110011111101 10101001 1111101 1010101 1110101101 11 1110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 438
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word voo at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Darned Mounseer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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