This is an analysis of the poem Song For All Seas, All Ships that begins with:
TO-DAY a rude brief recitative,
Of ships sailing the Seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbcX dcaeeXXcee bad ccXXXXfXdcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,3,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111000 0110011001011110 0011000101101101 10111 010110110110 11010110100110 10101 0110111101101010 10 00110110111110011 101 110001111110101 11 1111011001011100 10 1011110101001 0100010011 100101101111111010 100101110111011 101 111111011010 111001100100110 111010100110110101 1101101 010001010111010010101 11 1001110110101011 1111110110 10100010101010111 01010101001011101110 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 413
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; of, and, thee, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, ever, flaunt are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
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