This is an analysis of the poem Sold Foreign that begins with:
In Lady Dock, in Lady Dock, the ships from far and wide
Lay down their loads of fragrant deals the dusky sheds beside,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXcc ccaa aadd aaee bbbb ddee eeff XXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010101010111 11110101010101 111001001011111 11010101010101 110000101111101 110100101110100 11001101010001 11111101010111 01010101111101 01011101111111 11110101110101 01011101010001 01111101011101 01000101010111 010010101110101 01010101011101 11011101111001 01111101110101 11011101110111 01110100010101 010101110100111 010001010100101 0101011001011111 11110101111101 11010111111111 01010101010101 01111111010101 11011100110101 11011011111111 11111111111101 11110101010101 01101101111111 11010101110100 01011101110111 01101101110011 01111101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, from, of, her, and, i, lad are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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