This is an analysis of the poem The Ship Of Death that begins with:
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Now it is autumn and the falling fruit ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc de fbg X db fh ebfie X jc jgX kj X dbl j a jc hd ibe iel jcc a fe mli mlig X dno ilf efheebifb dficpcabpp X ccknc c X ilij Xkcgc nac Xe c l fomicl lcXbbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,3,1,2,2,5,1,2,3,2,1,3,1,1,2,2,3,3,3,1,2,3,4,1,3,3,9,10,1,5,1,1,4,5,3,2,1,1,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1001010101 10110010100 0101011101 0101110001 1001010111 011111110 00101 1 1111101111 11110111010 011011101001 1111010101 110101101010 11110 1001100101 1011010001 11010101000 1 110101101 00110 0101010111 0111010101 1010101110010 10111111010110 100101 1 1111010111 11110111010 001111 111011101 1 1101011111 0101000100 1101011101 1101011101 0101101101101 010111101010 00101 0100111010001 01001010011 010010011 1111011101 110001010111 101110100 1 11010110101 1010101101110 111011101110110 1100101110011 1100110110111 1110111011110110 11111 111101000111001 10000110001011 1 1110111011111 0100100110101 0101001101010 01010111 11010110100 10110100101 11011110101 1101110101 001010100101 00101110101 1101 010111 01010001 0101011111 10111011111 1011101101 100100101001 10010101001 1011010111 11110011101010101 10101011101 1011110100101 101111 11101 11 1 11010101001 01010101001 010100101010 0100101 01 0001000100 1 1110010001 101011010 010101 110100100101 00010110101 01010 1111101 0101010101 100100 110101 1001010101 0011 1110101010 11011110101 01011011101 1 0101101010111 0101110 1010111100110 1011 101111000101 100101 1010101 1000100 111101110 11010 101000100011
- Amount of stanzas: 43
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, you, and, death, already, dying, we, our, of, she, there, gone, flush are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, already, and, upon, she, for are repeated.
The author used the same words already, we, wait at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gone, peace, it are repeated).
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- summary of The Ship Of Death;
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