Going Down In Ships by Harry Kemp: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Going Down In Ships that begins with:

Going down to sea in ships
Is a glorious thing, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba Xbbb bcdc eccX bfgf bfdf cXgX cdedXgebe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 001001 111100101 0101 11101011010 10111 111101 0101 1110100101 11101 110110101 10111 1110110101 1111 11111111 0111 1010110111 10111 11010101 10101 111110101 1111 101010010 1111 1110100101 1111 01010010 0100 11111101 1101 11110101 1111 101010111 0101 11110101 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, oh are repeated.

    The author used the same word would at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Going Down In Ships;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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