This is an analysis of the poem Rafe's Chasm that begins with:
CAPE ANN, SEPTEMBER SURF. 1882.
White fire upon the gray-green waste of waves,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcXXdaecaXedXXfXfbXbebddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011 11001011101 0110010111 1001010111 0101110101 0101010101 1111111111 1101010101 1001010111 1101010100 0101000111 1101010110 11001010101 1111000101 10110010101 01001010101 1001001 1111000 111011 0100101 00110101 101100 11011101 110111 111101101 10110010101 10110010101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 528
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, there are repeated.
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