This is an analysis of the poem A Ship Sails Up To Bideford that begins with:
A ship sails up to Bideford;
Upon a western breeze,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAbACA aded eaaa XbXb XAaACA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110100 010101 1111101 110001 1101010 1010101 1101010 010001 1101010 110011 1101010 110101 11010010 110101 1100011 111101 0101000 0011001 01110100 010101 0101010 110001 1101010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 and is repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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