This is an analysis of the poem Shanghai Passage that begins with:
'Shanghai Brown, Shanghai Brown!'
The Skipper o' the ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme:
- Stanza lengths (in strings):
- Closest metre:
- Сlosest rhyme:
- Сlosest stanza type:
- Guessed form:
- Metre:
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; he's, an', nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he's, they'll, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word 'shanghai 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 brown is repeated).
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