This is an analysis of the poem We Put The Urn Abord Ship that begins with:

We put the urn aboard ship
with this inscription: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XXX aaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101011 00010 0001010 10101011 001000111 11101011 011111 0101010 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of We Put The Urn Abord Ship;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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