This is an analysis of the poem The Wreck Of The Steamer Mohegan that begins with:
Good people of high and low degree,
I pray ye all to list to me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXb ccXa ddee eebb fffX ccgg ggee ccXa bbff ccaa hhXb aXaa bbiiXccii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010011101 11110101 110101001001 0100010010100 101010011 11110100100010101 1011100101 11100101111 101001001111 11110110011 111100101010001 1100010111001 0111110101001 10111010111 1110001001001 01011110101010 011100101100101 1010101100101 10011000111 11101100101 11001111111010 0010010110110111 111001000101 11110100101101101 111000100101 101110110001 10101000110101 10101100011 110001000111111 1011011001001 110011110011111 10100110110100 11001010000001 1100011010110 10110011010 10110111001 1110110100100101 1001010100011 11010011010000101 11010010111001 1110101000101 101001011010100101 11001001011101 1010110001100 0111010101011 11001110001 01011010101100 1110101110101 10111101010001 111111011 001011101011 1110100100100101 11010011010111 1100100110101 0111111101 10100100110101 11010011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (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, their, boats are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, oh are repeated.
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