This is an analysis of The Ship That Never Returned by Henry Clay Work.
On a summer's day while the waves were rippling, with a quiet and a gentle breeze;
A ship set sail with a cargo laden for a port beyond the sea.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xa XB XB XB aa XB Xb XB cc XB Xb XB
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Metre: 101011010100001010101 01110011101010101 01100111100110101100 101111101010111001 1011110101010101100 101111101010111001 01100111100110101100 101111101010111001 10101001101111111 1110010011101111111 01100111100110101100 101111101010111001 101011010101110101 101111101010111001 01100111100110101100 101111101010111001 10101001101110101 101110110100011111 01100111100110101100 101111101010111001 10110111010101111100 1111100111010111001 01100111100110101100 101111101010111001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
returned, never, and
