This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Xiv The Ship Of State that begins with:

O ship the fresh tide carries back to sea again.
Where are you going! Quickly, run for harbour....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbb XcXb XXad Xbcb dXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111010101 11110101110 111111 101101 111011111010 001110011010 1111101 0101010 110010111011 111101011010 1110101 01011010 111101111101 010101110101 1101010 10011001 1111010100100 011111101101 0101001 01010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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.

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