This is an analysis of the poem Steel Rails that begins with:
She sailed out o' Sunderland with a cargo o' rails -
She sailed out o' Sunderland all among the March gales;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb eebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111100001111 1111100101011 00111110101011 1111110001111 11101111101 011111010111 111111110101 111110001111 10111100101101 1011010001101 0011010101111 1111110001111 1111111011010 1111011010010 11001101111 1111110001111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o', she, rails, out, sunderland, with, no, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word an' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word more at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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