This is an analysis of the poem Merchantmen that begins with:
These were the ships that kept on going
When the seas were thick with the War’s black sowing -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXefeef aaeeeXbbggbbXccfeef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111110 10101001110 1101001111 10101011111 1011111011 11010011101 1010111110 1011111101110 111100 111101 01111100111111 111101 111101 1111001 100111110 0101011110 10110111101 1100001111 1111111 01110111100 110101101110 1100101010010 111010010010 110011011010 10111001111 1010111011101 11010101 110011001 11111111111101 011100111 11111111 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 480
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; ships, and, that, in, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, some are repeated.
The author used the same word these 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 ships, men, us are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ships connects the lines.
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