This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of The Resurrection Packet that begins with:
Oh, she's in from deep water, she's safe in port once more,
With shot-'oles in 'er funnel which were not there before;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdX eeff XXee ggdX bbdd hhii jjdX ffiX ddXX ccdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100110110111 01100110101101 111111110101 1011110011 1011111111111 10111000111 10001101001 0101010001110 01011101110101 111101001110111 010001100100101 1101110111111 1001110010111 11111111111101 11111101111101 11100100110101 101111111101 101010111111 111010111101 0101010001110 011010011101 10111101011111 111010101111101 111110101111101 011010111101 1110110011111 01100110110010 110011111111110 1011111111101 101111111111 011111111 0101010001110 11010111100101 101110101100001 11011011101010 1110101011101010 0100110111111 1111010011101 1111111111010 111100110101110 1011111111111 1110101000111 011111111 10101010001110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (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; in, she's, 'er, an', to, she, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she's is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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