This is an analysis of the poem There's Nothing Like A Ship At Sea that begins with:
There's nothing like a ship at sea with all her sails full-spread
And the ocean thundering backward 'neath her mounting figurehead...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbX ccdX aadd aAbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111010111 1010100101010101 101010101010101 101010111111100 101011100010101 1111101011101001 100010101111111 101001100010101 111010101011101 101011101010001 111111100011111 111111001011001 11101011100111 1010100101010101 101100101110101 101010111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, i, sea are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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