This is an analysis of the poem The Liverpool Ship that begins with:

Oh, it's of a spanking clipper,
And she flew the old Black Ball,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcdceXdX ffgX ahXhXbibaiii ffGX adedjhjhjkjk ffGX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,12,4,12,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001010 1110111 00101010 1010111 101011100 1110111 10100010 1010101 10101110 1111101 10111011 1010111 1011101 1010101 11101101011 1111101 10001110 1010101 10110010 1011101 10101010 1110001 10101101 00101001 00111010 1010111 10101010 1010101 1011101 010011 1010111101 1110101 10001010 0010011 10101110 0010001 00111010 1010101 10111110 101101 10101010 1011101 10101010 0011111 101101 1111011 1010111101 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of The Liverpool Ship;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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