This is an analysis of the poem A Ship In A Bottle that begins with:
In a sailormen's restaurant Rotherhithe way,
Where the din of the docksides is loud all the day,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbbbddee bbddffbbggbbcc aa X h Xbe X iiXg gcc hhXXXXXXXX jjiiiiccaakk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,2,1,1,3,1,4,3,10,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001001011001 1010010001101 101011011011 11011001001 001011001001 101001011011 01011001111 001101011001 01001011011 01001101001 10100101101 11011011011 11001011001 11011011001 01011111011 11111001101 01001111001 110110011011 01001001001 001101101011 010110011011 01011011011 11011111011 111001011001 01011011001 001001101101 001101101111 101011011011 11111101101 111011001101 100 10 10 1 110 1100101101101 1100110111010 010111110010 011110010 11 11011011011 11111011011 10111001111 11111111011 11101011011 011010010110 0100110010110 111110010010 11011101 10 010 11101001100 1111010001101 01011001011 01001101001 01001111010 010011110110 010010110010 011110010110 111111001011 101111101101 001001001001 001011011101 101001011001 001001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 399
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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, of, or, with, its, they, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, or, the, in are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Ship In A Bottle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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