This is an analysis of the poem Coastwise that begins with:
The ships that trade foreign, to London they bear
Their cargoes unnumbered both common and rare,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcaa ddeXeecbfXfbg b Xfg hhffiiff bbbbjjkk aaeeaahh Xbiiggdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,13,1,3,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111001011 111100011011 111110111110 011010111010 110111111110 111110011010 11011001101 11011111011 11111001011 11001001011 010011001011 110110110011 0110101011 01011011011 0 1 1 100 1 1 101 110 010 1 1001 01111011011 11001011011 11101011101 11011011011 11011001101 01101001001 001001011101 111101101001 11111011011 11101101101 01111001101 11011011011 11011011011 101001001011 11111011011 11011101011 01111011001 101101101011 01111011111 001001001010 01011001101 11011011011 01011011001 11011011011 11111011011 01101011011 01001101001 01101011111 01001101001 01011011111 01001111101 01101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, their, they, that, by, of, towns are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, the are repeated.
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- summary of Coastwise;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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