This is an analysis of the poem The Ship's Good-Bye that begins with:
I leaned on the taffrail, I saw the day dying
Like a flock of gay birds round the royal yards flying;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb CcDX ccee ffee ccee CcDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010110110 1010111010110 11001111011 101101101011 110110110010 1110110010110 01011011001 110110010110 011011111010 110110110010 11001111001 11111001001 1010011111010 11011010101100 1101011101 101001110001 11011010110 10111010110 11011011111 101011001001 110110110010 1010011010010 01011011001 110110010110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines to is repeated).
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