This is an analysis of the poem Rhyme Of The Captive Maid that begins with:
A ship there sailed in the nitrate trade,
And she went by the name of the ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abA ccddcceeaaffgghhff IIJJKKFf cccchhffaXddabAX cckkhhllcXhhccddccXIIJJKKFf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,18,8,16,27,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100111 11110100 101 11010101 111000101 1110010101 011100111 10100001011 1001100111 1110100111 101111111 110010101 01111101 11100111101 111010011 111001001 010101101 1010111001 1010100101 1011010101 101101101 1001101110 1001101110 010110111 111110101 11110101 010110101 110111101 1011100011 0100111010 10101101110 10101000111 10111001001 1011110101 10111001001 101010111 101101111 010010111 11001011100 0100110011 011110111 1100101101 101100 101 1 110101111 110100101 10011111 101111101 10011101 10101101 1110001001 11101101 1011001101 010110110 10010111 11011101 11010101 1111001001 111011001 11101101 010100101 11101110101 1001101110 1001101110 010110111 111110101 11110101 010110101 110111101 1011100111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 556
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nothing, strange are repeated.
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