This is an analysis of the poem Age (Millwall Dock) that begins with:
It's 'ard on a ship when she's old -
An' her riggin' a sin to be'old,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbaaXa aacXcdddaaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101111 101001010 11111101 111011011 111011011 11101011 101 1101111 01101111 111111111 111101111 11001001 101110011 11011011 11111111 111011001 111101101 001101101 101 1101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; an' is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
The author used the same word it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines old is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word old at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase 'ard connects the lines.
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