This is an analysis of the poem The Port O'Call that begins with:

Our hull is seldom painted,
Our decks are seldom stoned;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaBABabcdcXefe gXhggaXa daBaaefe igXgjkak ihbhhklk ahjhdhjh aaaaBABaXcXcaece amimiggg Xceaeclgl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,8,8,16,8,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 111101 1111110 111101 1100010 111001 1111111 011111 1101111 010101 0111010 010111 1010010 010101 1001010 110111 1101110 1111110 1101111 110101 0111110 111101 1101011 110101 1111010 111101 1111111 011111 11001011 111111 11001010 111101 1101110 111101 0101110 110001 0111111 111101 10100111 1010111 1101110 001101 11100010 111011 1100111 110101 0111110 110101 1101010 110001 10111011 1011101 1111110 110101 0101011 1011001 1101010 111101 0101010 001001 1100010 111001 1111111 011111 1111010 1111001 0110010 111101 11111010 111101 10111011 1010001 10110010 10010101 10100110 1110011 0101110 1010010 10100110 1010011 1111011 110111 11001011 1100101 10101011 111111 11110101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; our, we, and, him, his, wind are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, we, and, the are repeated.

    The author used the same words our, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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