This is an analysis of the poem The Ships That Won'T Go Down that begins with:
We hear a great commotion
'Bout the ship that comes to grief, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca DeDeafdf acdXeXca cgcgXfaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 1011101 1100110 1010101 0101110 010101 11111010 0011111 1100010 010001 1100010 110101 1100010 110001 1101011 0011101 1101010 0110111 1101010 0010111 1111111 010100010 1111110 0011111 0101010 1010101 10101010 1010101 1101110 111101 101101010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to, builders, of are repeated.
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