This is an analysis of the poem Shipmates (Clipper Ship Mary Ambree) that begins with:
These are the men that sailed with me
In the Colonies clipper ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaX bbccdd aaeeXfcccc ffgghhgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,10,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 0010010 101 110111010 101101101110 10110111 11101111 10010111 10100101 110111010 0111011110 111101001 0111001101 101100010110 11110111 111011110 0010111010110 111001010 11001011010 11011111 101100101 100110111 111110111 111001111 111110101 010010111 110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, in 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.
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