This is an analysis of the poem The Sea-Mew that begins with:
I had loved the pretty birds that by my window sung—
The gentle thrush that had his nest the perfumed pines among;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccXc ccdd eeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1110101111101 01011101001101 01000101011111 01100101111111 01011100100101 01000101110101 01001101101100 010011010101011 11011101110101 11110011111011 10110101110111 11010101111111 11111101110111 11010001010111 11010111010001 11110111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, his, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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