This is an analysis of the poem There Is that begins with:

There is this ship which has taken my beloved back again
There are six Zeppelin sausages in the sky and with night ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcadcXefgXahiigfgXbjheiiXkfgggkdeeacdeXakflfgjcafafl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111101010101 111100100001101 101010110010010 1111011 1001001011010111 1111011001010 100011100111 1001000101010101 101 1001001111010011 1011010001001001 11010000001001 10010011010100101 111001 1101101001101010 1110010101010 1000100100001010 1000101 10011001010110101 01010101 10010010011100011 110100100101001011 101110110101001011 0110100101 10011101001001010 10010100010010101 0101110101010 11111101010101 110 111011010110011 11100111 10011101111010 100101010010101 010001 1111101010111 1110001001011010 0100 11011011 10010111001111 1010 1011001011001 11111010111010 1011011 1001011111110 10010100100001101 010 111110101001 11111110010010 10101001 1101100110101 100101101001 10111111111100 110010010010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2533
  • Average number of words per stanza: 445
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there, by, of are repeated.

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

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