This is an analysis of the poem Coasting Brigantine - Unnamed that begins with:

I rather think they built her in some good old-fashioned yard
That smelt of pitch and sawdust and of hemp rope newly tarred,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb XXcc dXef a eXaeaegfX ggcc Xghh ddii XXdd eeii aaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,9,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011100101101 11011111011101 1111111010100101 111010101110101 11010101011101 101011101010101 101010101010101 001000111010101 11011 001 1 10 101 1 111010 11111101 1 101 1 101 1101110 010101011111110 11110101111011 11011101110111 110011111010011 11011101110101 1110101010100101 111111101110101 0010101010100011 101010100011101 11111101111111 1101011110101 11011111011001 11110100010101 101010101010001 101011100010001 01000101110101 101000100011101 11010101110111 001010101010101 101010101011101 101010101011101 101110101111101 101010101011111 101010111111101 001011111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, built, and, of, no, to, from are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, no are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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