This is an analysis of the poem The Ocean Liner that begins with:
They went down to the sea in ships,
In ships they went down to the sea. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABacXcacAb bbddefbfe ddggheheijffji ABabkf kfflflmdmdkkheebbh ABbancncbaAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,14,6,18,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 01111001 0110111 0100111 0111001 1100101 11110111 10111011 11100101 00101001 11100111 1111001 1110101 001001101 10101111 10111101 01011001 1110101 1110101 1101000 0011111 11011001 011100101 11011011 1101001 1111001 11011101 111101 110010010 10111001 10101001 11101010 10100111 11100101 01111001 10110101 11100111 10100111 010101 1011101 111101001 10111101 11110111 1110111 11100101 1011111010 11011011 110010010 11101001 111111111 111011001 001011001 111001001 111001101 101110001 111101 00101001 11100101 01111001 111001001 111011001 1110110110 0101100 01001010 0110101 11100110 11001001 11100101 01111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; in, sea, to, that, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, what, and, straight, the are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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