This is an analysis of the poem My Ship And I that begins with:
O it's I that am the captain of a tidy little ship,
Of a ship that goes a sailing on the pond; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabba Xcddc Xdeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 101110100010101 00111010101 111010101011101 110010101110101 10111010101 111010101010101 10101010101 101010110010111 001010101010101 101010111 101111101010101 11101010101 101010100010101 01010101110101 101001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ship, to, i, dive, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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