This is an analysis of the poem See You In Liverpool that begins with:
The hatches are on, sonny, an' the cargo's all stowed:
Time to say 'So long' now, time to take the road:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb eeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101110101111 10111110101 11010111111 111101011111 111011010101 101101101011 11010011100101 111101011111 1011101011 10011010101 10011011111 111101011111 0100110010111 1011011111111 111011100111 11101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', road, all, one, or are repeated.
The author used the same word all at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word son at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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More information about poems by Cicely Fox Smith
- Analysis of Liverpool
- Analysis of Les Champignons (Conversation Exercise)
- Analysis of Little Gorilla
