This is an analysis of the poem Mulligan's Shanty that begins with:
Things is just the same as ever
On the outer Never-Never,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXXbXb XbXbbXXX aaXbbXXX aaXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 10101010 111010101010 111111100 101011000 111110101010 1011110 110010 11101110 11101010 10111010011 11101110 11111010 111010101110 1011110 11000 11111010 11110110 11101110101 11101010 11101010 101111101110 1011110 11000 11101010 10101010 111010100010 11111000 11101100 101000101010 1011110 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; shanty, says, ', polish are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Mulligan's Shanty;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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