This is an analysis of the poem In Prize that begins with:
A ship was built in Glasgow, and oh, she looked a daisy -
(Just the way that some ships do!)...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBab cc aa aa XX XX dd ee XXXaBab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111111010 1011111 1010101011101110 101110101 11110100101110 101111101111110 11100110111110 1110101001110010 11111111110010 11010100111110 110101000111010 11010110111110 11011100101011 111111110010111 11010100111110 111111011000010 111010111111110 101110110111110 11110010111111 011011101111110 111111101111010 1011111 101110101111110 101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, 'er, they, so, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The author used the same words they, she, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines 'er is repeated).
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