This is an analysis of the poem Little Ships that begins with:
The big ships are short—and the big ships are busy:
A continent is hungry and the high hopes fail....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111011110 010001010111 1110100101010 100010110101 11010101010 1011110101 101100111010 1101010010101 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 398
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word bring is repeated.
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- summary of Little Ships;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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