This is an analysis of the poem The Stranded Ship: (The “vincennes”) that begins with:
’Twas the glowing log of a picnic fire where a red light should not be,
Or the curtained glow of a sick room light in a window that faced the sea.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbee ffbb ggdd eehh hhaaXccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101010011101011110 1010010011100101101 101011010110110101 10101101011010101 0101001011010111 111101111011111111 0111101111010101 11110010111011101 10111101011101001 1111101011011101 11010010110111001 0101001111101101 111111110111100111 10111010010110111 01110110100110111 10111011011100101 1110101110010101 01101110011110101 01101111001011101 111110111010110101 11001101101011101 010011010110110101 0100111110111101 10111101011010111 11111111110101 0111101011011111 11111001110010111 11101001011000101 101011010100110111 11101100100111101001 11111101111101111 11101111111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 75 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, out, she, they, sent, to, in, with, ll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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