This is an analysis of the poem Poor Old Ship (Regent's Canal Dock) that begins with:
Her rigging it was once of the best a man could find;
With canvas of the stoutest her lockers they were lined;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbC ddeeC aabbC XaffC gghhC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100110010111 0100010010101 11010101101000 1101110011001 111 0101111010101 1101110110101 1101110010101 101011101010101 111 0101011010100 1101110111111 1101110111101 11011110111101 111 1110111011110110 1101011110101 1101110110111 1101010010101 111 11011101111101 11010100010111 110110100010101 11010110010101 111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her, and, she, she's, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she's is repeated.
The author used the same word her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ship at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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