This is an analysis of The Good Craft _Snow Bird_ by Herman Melville.

Strenuous need that head-wind be
From purposed voyage that drives at last…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXb cdcd XaXa ceee fffX gbgb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10011110 0100101111 0111111 1010101 11111010 1010101 0101010010 1011111 11101010 1010101 11101110 10010101 10111010 1111101 010111110 1010101 11010101 101010001 11010111 1101011 1010101 11011001 10011111 111100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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