This is an analysis of the poem The Sea-Swallows that begins with:
THIS FELL when Christmas lights were done,
Red rose leaves will never make wine;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAaA baba cAca aaaa dAdA eAeA cAcA cAcA aAaA caca fafa caca gaga baXa aAaA hAhA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110101 11101011 101010110 0111101001 110110101 110101011 10100100110 10110101 100101011 11101011 01011011 111100111 11001111 11111001 110001101 111100101 110111101 11101011 1101101 0111101001 110111101 11101011 011010101 0111101001 110110101 11101011 11110101 0111101001 110111111 11101011 1110011 0111101001 110111111 11101011 11010111 0111101001 1111100101 1111100101 111111101 010100101 01010111 101100101 011101111 011110101 01111101 01101101 01101101 111100101 110011101 11010101 01010110 110110101 01010110 11111111 111101001 010110101 11110111 11101011 101110101 0111101001 11110111 11101011 101111101 0111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; have, ye, my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words o, or, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word tyne at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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