This is an analysis of the poem The Ships Of Saint John that begins with:
Where are the ships I used to know,
That came to port on the Fundy tide... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXXeb eXef cfcf ghgh ijij cbcb Xbfb akak bjbj cjcj dedeXgaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 110110101 1010001 0101101 011110101 001110111 10111101 010111 10111100 1101101010 1101101111 10101001 10110011 1010110 110011101 0010001 11010011 00010111 01110101 111111 01000101 01110101 01110101 011101 11010101 01010101 010110001 110101 11100111 010000101 11010101 0101001 10101100 01010101 11010001 110101 110011101 11011101 101011001 10111101 111111101 0010100111 1010010101 1011111 01010101 01010101 1011010111 110101 1110101111 010110101 1011010101 1010101 011110111 011100011 111101001 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the, and, i are repeated.
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