This is an analysis of the poem Sailing Ships that begins with:
Lying on Downs above the wrinkling bay
I with the kestrels shared the cleanly day,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcaXddee ffggfhhhggiihh ggddjjeeXfff kkfflliiaXXfccfff eeeehhaXeegghhcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,14,12,17,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110101001 1001010101 0101110101 1111110101 0101000101 1001000101 11001010111 1011011100 1101110111 1111000101 1101011101 1101110111 110001101 0101111101 0100110101 0101010001 11001110101 1111110111 0101010101 0111010101 01001010101 110010100101 11110101110 11010101110 1101011101 1111111101 1101110001 1101010101 1101010001 1101111101 11011101010 11011101010 10110111110 01010101110 1111010101 1001010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101111101 0111010111 0111010101 1111110101 1001010101 0101100101 0101010101 1111011111 1011010111 1101011100 1101110100 1101010111 1101000101 0101110001 1111000111 10010101010 111111010101 1111110101 1111011111 11001011101 0101110101 1111010101 1101010011 11110100101 1111001100 1001010101 1011001111 1101010101 0101001101 1110010111 0011001101 100111001001 0101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, her are repeated.
The author used the same word shared at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sailing Ships;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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