This is an analysis of the poem The Day Of Little Ships that begins with:

Long after the shadow of war is fled
And the last battle is fought...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb deXe X fagaf cf ghih daha XgigXafccf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,5,2,4,4,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100110101 1011001 100100101 101111 1111001011 010111 11110100010 1011001 10101101 10 1 1 1 1 101010001 111101 110100111 111111 111110101 111111111 110100111 0100111 1110101111 1101111 11101101 100101 110100111 101101 11110111 1010111 110100101 110100101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ships is repeated).

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  • history of its creation;
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