This is an analysis of the poem To Cruel Ocean that begins with:
Where are the hapless shipmen?--disappeared,
Gone down, where witness none, save Night, hath been,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1111011110 1111010101 1101110101 11111100101 0101001111 1000111111 1101010101 111011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 421
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
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- summary of To Cruel Ocean;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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