This is an analysis of The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville.
About the Shark, phlegmatical one,
Pale sot of the Maldive sea,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXbXcbcadXd
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 010110001 1100101 01101011011 10100100 001101001001 11100101 1100110101 101001001 1100101101 0110101001 11101011001 101001001 11111011101 11001001 111001001011 110001001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
his, of, in, and
Anaphora
or
