This is an analysis of the poem With Ships The Sea Was Sprinkled that begins with:
WITH ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh,
Like stars in heaven, and joyously it showed; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbaXcdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101110111 11010110001 1101110001 1101111111 0101001110 1101000101 1100010111 01001100101 0111011100 1101000101 0101010101 1011110101 1101110111 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
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