This is an analysis of the poem The Dark, Blue Sea that begins with:
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcc cdcdddddd aaaaaeaee afaffbfbX eeeeegegg hhhXhdhddXeeeeebebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001000101 1001010101 1001001101 1011110001 1111011101 0111010111 0111011001 0100010111 111101110101 1111111101 1101110101 1101010001 10010101001 0111111101 0110110101 1101010101 11001101001 01011001000101 0111011111 1101111101 1110101111 1101011101 1010110001 11110001101 1100011101 0101011111 110101011111 0100110001 0111010101 1111001100 011001111 1101001101 0101110001 1111110101 1100110111 0101001110010 11110010111 01001110111 11010101101 11001011101 0101110101 1111010111 1001011101 1111011101 11101101101 110010101001 1001010011 11100011111 1001100101 1101010101 0100010001 000100100111 0100011111 011111110001 1111110111 0101111100 1111010001 11000110101 00011001001 1001010101 1111000101 1100110111 111101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 394
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; there, i, thy, him, of, or, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, from, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Dark, Blue Sea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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