This is an analysis of Song Of The Crew Of Diaz by Louisa Stuart Costello.

On the Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope,
or Cape of Storms…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ab cdbd ebXb bfXf cgbX faha heXe bgXg
  • Stanza lengths: 2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 100100001001 1101 1111101 1010101 10101010 010101 1101010 1110101 1001010 111101 0111010 111101 101110010 1010101 11111010 011101 1010101 10011000 0111010 110101 1111110 110101 11111110 110101 11101010 1110001 11101010 00110001 11101010 110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 36

Repeated words/phrases

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