This is an analysis of the poem The Naval Constructor that begins with:
He looked upon the ships as they
All idly lay at anchor,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bcbc dede ffff gggg hchc hfhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 1101110 11010101 0100110 01001101 1011010 11010101 1011010 11110101 0101110 01010101 0101010 11000101 1100011 01011101 0101011 11010101 0101010 11110101 0101000 01111101 0101010 01001111 1101010 11010101 1001010 10101001 101100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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