This is an analysis of the poem City Of Ships that begins with:
CITY of ships!
(O the black ships! O the fierce ships!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbXcdefXXfXXcdXbef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 10111011 101001111111 10001111011 101001110101 100011001011001 1011010100011011001 101011 1001011100110010110 11100101001010010 01111011101100110 111 11010110111110 011010111110001 110101011011101011 010 01111010111111101 101 11110111011111 01110111010101 111011111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1128
- Average number of words per stanza: 185
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ships, o, city, of, and, me, i, you, have, peace are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, city are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ships, here are repeated).
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- summary of City Of Ships;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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