This is an analysis of The Arctic Voyager by Henry Timrod.

Shall I desist, twice baffled? Once by land,
And once by sea, I fought and strove with storms,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbccdacaaefgehcadaiajfacaXaXjgfbgXXeiahdfeib
  • Stanza lengths: 45,
  • Metre: 1101110111 1111111101 1101011101 1101110101 1111010111 11001010101 1101111101 1111011101 1001010111 01010000111 1101110001 1011010101 0101011111 11101111111 1100010101 1011010011 1101010111 1101011111 0101000101 1101111101 0101110001 1101010001 0101011101 0101010111 1011110101 1101110111 1111010101 1111010001 1101010101 1111010101 0111110111 0101110100 0101010101 1011011111 1111010101 1101110101 1011110111 1111111111 0101010001 0011110001 0101010001 1111010111 0101111111 1111110111 1011010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 45

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

no, is