This is an analysis of the poem The Seamaids’ Music that begins with:

One moment the boy, as he wander’d by night
Where the far spreading foam in the moonbeam was white, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11001111011 101101001111 11011101001 01001011001 11011101101 11111001001 101101111001 101011101101 111011011011 11001001001 101001001000 101101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word one at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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