This is an analysis of the poem A Capital Ship that begins with:

A capital ship for an ocean trip
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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabcabaaadeffXegahabcicgejehXjacbkbbdjdbjajXeiekfkfdXae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100111101 10100101 11110101 1100101 011011101 011010111 1010110111 11000101 111111 010101 11111101 11010111 0110101 010101 0101100101 11001 010111001 1100101 111100101 10101001 0101101001 1111010111 1100100101 00100101 0101101011 1100101 11011011 110111 011110111 1010110111 1010010111 1101011 1111111000 10101111 11101111101 00100101 110011101 1110101011 10100110101 10100101 010111101 1101001 111110101 0011101 1110100101 111010111 10100111011 11100101 110010111 1111111 1100110011 1100101 111011111011 1110010111 11110100101 101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1947
  • Average number of words per stanza: 393
  • 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, we are repeated.

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

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