This is an analysis of the poem There Is A Boat Down On The Quay that begins with:

There is a boat down on the quay come home at last.
The paint's chipped, the sails stained as if...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcddefXdfbXedcccccdaXababcebeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111011111 01101110 111010 1010011010 10101101 0011010 010111001 00011010 11101010 10101100101 11011 11100010 111101010001 1011001 01010101010 1101111001 1111010 1011111 1001001 111110 1101110 1011011011 1010100011 110011001 1100010 01001101010 11000100 111110111 110111 1100111 11101011 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1140
  • Average number of words per stanza: 209
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; they is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word those is repeated.

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  • summary of There Is A Boat Down On The Quay;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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