This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written On The Sea-Coast that begins with:
SWIFT o'er the bounding deep the VESSEL glides,
Its streamers flutt'ring in the summer gales,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa abab acac dedefafa gdgd ahah ececfXfgii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,8,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001010101 0101000101 0101010101 11010010111 1111010011 1111011001 1101010101 1011000101 0101010101 1011001101 0101001101 1101010101 1101111101 0101010101 1111010101 0011000101 11010110001 1011011101 10011010101 1011010111 01010101001 1001010101 0101110101 11010001001 10011010101 0101001101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010001 1001110001 010010101001 1001010101 1011101111 1101010101 1101010101 1111011101 1111011101 100101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; his is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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