This is an analysis of the poem Ballad Of A Ship that begins with:
Down by the flash of the restless water
The dim White Ship like a white bird lay; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc ababbcbC ababbcbC X XcbC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001010 011110111 1011101110 1111001001 1111111001 10111001110 100110111 101001001110 110111001110 111100111 1001101110 1101011011 11111111111 11011001110 11001001001 101001001110 10100101110 011110111 01001001110 110110111 0100100101 111001110 111101011 101001001110 10 111100110 00101101110 1111101111 101001001110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, her, of are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word lying at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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