The Coming Of The Ship by Khalil Gibran: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Coming Of The Ship that begins with:

Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn onto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b c d b e f b g e h i g j h h k h hfgkhj l m X n j X k l i l f j jX b l h l k h l k d X h o j k b c X d n m o o a X m a h Xf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,6,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000010100101101100111101000100100101110011111001001 1001110101010010101101010101111011100110001 1010010110101111001111011100100001 111010010101011111001111101101101101010010111010 10010111101011100101000111010011010000101 1101000101110011111010100110111001111110010001010111 001010111011011110111 100011101110111010101 11101010 0111111001111101 101101010010011101101001 11110111011111 01101001101110101101010 10110101101010101 1111010011101010111101010010101010100010011 1011100111 10110101100011101110111111010100101101 1011011110001110101 100101011001110010101110 1111011011001110 11111010 101111100010101 100101000111001010001 11111010101001010 1111110011110101111101100010101 1111101001110001011010100010001 111001 1010100010100 1100111110111 111111011110101001011110100100 11101011010011111011100 11101011010111111 110110100101111011011111 01001001111101110100111010100 00011010011111011011000010 00010010011111100011111101 1011111110 10100001110011111010 111101110010101110111101010 111100001010101011110101011011 101000101111 1110101 01011001111111101101 110110111011111110010 101111010111 101101001101 110100110111100111011010100 111011010111110010111 111111101111011001 11010110111101011 11010011110110101001010 11011011001 11100111010111111101100101 1110100100101101010 1111001010010111100111010 1110100010100101111111010111101010110 111110 1001011010011110100111 11111111111 1011010101100101010110010111111111111 1011111111101111011 11010101101110110101110 0110001110111011000111000101010011 111011001111111011011001111 1110 10010001111101101011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 60
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 69
  • Average number of symbols per line: 88 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 17

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, of, in, he, without, city, i, with, my, you, to, their, that, may, what, it, our, have, for, she, your, us are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, if are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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