This is an analysis of the poem The Ship That Never Was that begins with:
In Casey's Baltic Tavern Mike and I
Heard an old shellback praising to the sky,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcbddee fXdbXXggXh dd ahbiXchX aXbbiXaaiX hhgb heebbbbXhhbbff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,2,8,10,4,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010111 1111010001 0111010101 1101001101 010 10 100101 1011010011 1001010111 1111010101 11011110010 110011101111 1101001 10 1 11111011111 1101110101 1101011101 10011101001 1111010101 1111110101 1101010101 1 11 10 10001 11110011100 1100 100 11110 1 111010 10 1 11011 101 11 11110111111 1101111111 1111111111 1100111001 1101010101 1 10 100 10110 10001101101 1101011111 1011110000 1111010101 0110110111 11110010101 0111010111 10011010111 10001010111 01110111010 0111010110110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; her, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
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