This is an analysis of the poem They Built Ships that begins with:
Nigh the mouldering staithe
Where the lads came to bathe,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAbcbbbc dbXdXcbbb eebddeffeb eebffggXAecce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,10,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001 101101 1010101010 10101 01010 10101 10011 111 1101111 10101 10101 111001 01101 101100101 01101101101011 10111000101 1010100011111 1010111 100111 101111 011111 11101 111 0101 101010111 10111 10101 1101011 10001 011101 001010 10110 10101011000101 010101 110101 101101 110101 110011 111011 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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, her are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of They Built Ships;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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