This is an analysis of the poem When A Ship Sinks that begins with:
When a ship sinks...
Those aboard, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXccaabXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 101 1011001000101011 11100010 001001110010100 0110010100010010 11011 011001 01011000 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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