This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Ship that begins with:
Come you up from southward, oh, come you there - away?
And saw you not my ship there that's late now many a day?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXb bbXc bbcc bbdd cccc eebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010111101 11111111111001 11110111101010 101 010 1101000 101111111110 101110101110 1010010101010 101000101110 111001111010 100011110010 111010101110 100111110110 101010101110 101000111110 101110101010 1011011010010 101011101010 1011010111010 101011011010 1010101010010 101011101010 101011101110 101111111110 101110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, her, it, ask are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, ah, ask are repeated.
The author used the same word ask 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 her is repeated).
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