This is an analysis of the poem The Ghost Ship. that begins with:
Behold her on the silent sea,
Yon vessel like a spirit there!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbaacccacXddeecfcfggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11010101 10010100 101101 11101111 11111111 11010101 10010100 11110101 10011101 10011110 010100 10011101 11000101 10010101 00100101 01111101 01010101 01010110 110101 11011001 101110001 11100101 10010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 758
- Average number of words per stanza: 152
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; or, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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