This is an analysis of the poem A Voice From The West that begins with:
What is the voice I hear
On the wind of the Western Sea?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb cDcDXX efeff ggggg hfhfX cDcDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100111 10100101 100100111 1110110 1011101010010111 10100101 1101011 1111100111 0101101 1110111111 10101101 100100111 1100111 1110110101 110101 1100111110111111 1101001 111011 10110100101 0100111 01001011110100111 010011101 10101111 0100101111 10100111 1111001111111001 1000110111 1101011 1111100111 0101101 1110111111110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, wherever are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word '' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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