This is an analysis of the poem The Way Of A Ship that begins with:

Give me a tall barque swinging
South'ard with all she'll stand;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdCdXadadccCc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110 100111 1101110 110101 111111 111001 010010011 0110111 1101010 100101 1101110 110111 111111 11101 010010011 0110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; way, give, me are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word give at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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