This is an analysis of the poem A Winter Ship that begins with:
At this wharf there are no grand landings to speak of.
Red and orange barges list and blister...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcc Xbdee edXdf fdfaX XdXgg XXXhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111110010 1110101110 1000111010 1010010100 0110100101 011011010100 100100110 111100010010 01110100 010010110 0111101111 011001010 0100111110 110101100101 0110101001 1001100100 01101011110 001010110101 1100010100 100010111 1010100101000 0111110110 101111101 110010111 111011010001 1011110101 100110100111 01001010 0100100101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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