This is an analysis of the poem The Three Ships that begins with:
I had tramped along through dockland till the day was all but spent,
But for all the ships I there did find I could not be content;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabbccddeeXcffdd ddgX ffhhaaddiihhjjcXiiiikk fdlX aaffhhffddhhggffjjiihh gdlX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,4,22,4,22,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101011111 111011101111010 100111111001111 101010101110101 1011101010010011 001010101010001 101010101110001 101010101011111 1010001010010111 101011101010111 101011101010101 101010101110111 111110101011101 001011101110101 011011101011101 101011101111101 101010101011101 101110101011101 101110111010100 111011111010111 11111011111111 11111110110 10101111110101 10111011111 111011101110101 101011111010111 101110101010111 101011101110111 10101101011101 101010100110001 111111101010110 101110101010001 111110101110111 001011101011110 111010100011101 111110101110101 101010101010111 1010101111110101 111010101001101 111010100011001 111011111011110 101011111011111 111000111110101 001110101010111 101011100011101 101011100110101 11111111111111 10111110111 1110111011101110 11111011101 111011101010111 111011111110010 111010100010101 101110101010101 001010101110111 101010101110101 111011101110111 111110111110101 101110111010101 1011101001110110 111110101110101 101110100011101 101010111011101 111100101111111 101010101010101 101010101011101 101011100010101 11110101110101 11010101111101 010101010010101 11010111010101 01010101011101 11111111110111 11101110110 0111111011101110 10101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 803
- Average number of words per stanza: 157
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, of, you're, as, there, ships, her, you, for, river are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, you're, there are repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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