This is an analysis of the poem John Company's Ships that begins with:
John Company's ships, they sailed the seas -
The Merchant's Hope and the Trade's Increase ,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXccddaadd bbddeeffXXee ggddXXXbeXhhdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110011101 010110101 11101101 11101101 011101111 11101111 100100101 100100111 10110111 11101111 110111011 110011101 11001101011 1110101001 1110101111 100111001 11100111101 00111100110 11111101001 001001011011 1100101100 1110110111 1100110101 110011111 110011111 111111111 010100111 110101101 111001110 101011010 10111110 10101111 111110111 110101110 1011110111 010111111 111110111 1100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 528
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, in, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word john is repeated.
The author used the same word john at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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