This is an analysis of the poem The Dead Ship Of Harpswell that begins with:
What flecks the outer gray beyond
The sundown's golden trail?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcded cfXffXga gdfdhigi cfifjaaa cdhdiaca hfcfbbbb dbkXgkgk cfjfhfdf efgfalil XXdXccXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010101 01100111 110101 11110111 111101 01011101 010101 01110101 010101 01110111 110101 110011101 1100110 11110111 010101 110101001 110111 11011101 110101 11110101 110111 11110111 1100101 11010101 111101 11100101 010101 11011101 011111 11010101 1101001 11010101 1000110 11110101 110101 11011101 110101 11110111 010111 011010101 010100 01100111 0111001 01010111 010101 11110101 110101 11110101 111101 110111001 110010 11011101 110101 11010111 0100111 01110101 010101 01011101 1101001 01100101 010101 11110101 111101 11111101 111111 11010111 010101 11110111 110101 11010101 110101 11011111 01111101 01010101 11010101 11010001 11110111 0101011101 1101001 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; from, no, of, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, from, she, in are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase in connects the lines.
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- summary of The Dead Ship Of Harpswell;
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