Ship's Glamour by Harry Kemp: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ship's Glamour that begins with:

When there wakes any wind to shake this place,
This wave-hemmed atom of land on which I dwell, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab ccbb ddefefdgXgghhXggbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 01110011111 1101010101 01001010100 111101111 0111010101 1111010101 1100110101 0111011101 11111100111 1011010101 0101111101 1100110111 0100010111 1101010111 1111111110 11010011000 0101101101 1101010001 0111010001 1100010101 0101010101 0111010101 0101110101 0101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of is repeated.

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

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