This is an analysis of the poem The Wreck Of The Abercrombie Robinson that begins with:
Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of May
That six Companies of the 91st Regiment with spirits light and gay,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX bbaa ccdd eeee ffcc aagc aadd ffff ddee cgdd ffcg ffhh ffff cXcX eehh ffee aXXXXffhhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 100101110101 11100001100010111 110010010110101 0101101010001001101 110100111101001 110100010000100111011 10100111101 10010001111100101 00101110010111 11010101010101 11010011100110101 101010101001 1011001100110 0101001101101001100 10111010111011 011110110100101 01110011011001 11010101010110011 111010101011 111010010010101 10100101001 1010101010010010101 101101000101001 1010110111101 10101101010101 1110010110110101 1011010100101 10110111001 10111100101 10111010111001 101110101001 1101011111001 1011001111001 1101100100101 110101100101 10111111011001 011101010101101 100010101001 11010101010101 111101000101011001 11001101100101001 101010110001 10100100100101 11100100101101 1010101100101 101011000111 1010110000101000 1010101111000 1011010101 1100010110011011 1110010000110011 0100111110101 1010000110010110 11011001110100 10111110100101011 101011011011110 001010001111 1110101101001101 010110101110 1011111101100 111110111011 1100101001101 010010011101001 01010110111101 110010110110101 101010100010110000 10100100101101010 1111010011101 11110111101 11101010110001 0101001011010 11011011100 11100100111100 1110101010111100
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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