This is an analysis of the poem At Sea that begins with:
As night hath stars, more rare than ships
In ocean, faint from pole to pole,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XbXb cdcd dXdX efefXbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 01010101 11010001 1010001 11111111 11110001 001101001 111101111 00110101 10010001 00110101 01100100 00110101 01110001 11010011 01110100 10111100 0101101 10011001 0100101 10110001 01110101 10110001 10110001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, in are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of At Sea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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