This is an analysis of the poem The Ship-Keeper that begins with:
When dusk comes round again
And red goes down the sun,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcdede fgfghihiacac ededegegfc XfeX XaXa ififajajhkhk hfhflclc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,10,4,4,12,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 111101 11010001 110111 110111 011101 110111 110101 110111 010101 110001 010101 110101 011101 110001 110101 101111 111111 011111 010111 011101 011111 110110 111111 011111 011111 101101 110101 011101 111111 111111 110101 011101 010101 010 100 11 100 010101 110101 1101010 010101 110101 110111 011101 011101 1111001 110111 110111 1111001 111010 011101 110111 111101 011101 010111 110111 111110 010101 110101 011101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, old are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, old are repeated.
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- Analysis of The Ship's Good-Bye
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