This is an analysis of the poem The Submarine That Sank The that begins with:
SPINDRIFT white shall her victims stand
On the ivory quay, untrod... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa X bcbcadadefefgggghchc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 10100110 110111110 010101 010001000 11010101 110001 100110111 101111 11000101 111101 11010101 110111 100110101 010111 110101011 001101 11011101 110101 101101011 111101 11010001 010000 11010111 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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; of is repeated.
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