This is an analysis of the poem When Ships Put Out To Sea that begins with:
It's 'Sweet, good-bye,' when pennants fly
And ships put out to sea;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbAcA X baddAcA X XaeeAcA X XaddAcA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,7,1,7,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 111101 0010110111 0110111101 110101 11 110101 1 01111101 111111 011101101 1010110101 110101 11 110101 1 01011111 111111 01011101 111100101 110101 11 110101 1 01111101 111111 010101101 110100101 110101 11 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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