This is an analysis of the poem Sea Dreams that begins with:

A city clerk, but gently born and bred;
His wife, an unknown artist's orphan child- ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabcbdefghiXXfgjgXXfXagakibkacleadbkXgahggXmkdfe aimdXiXmaa aafjiggigecciXemdefaeX XfaX aahfihglgajagnXeeeX aX bcgdfmgegaggedhibagbagaagkgambmiX cmgcX XgcXggnfdedabaggoiaebamX kjjaggkaegX XfkeoobbffddaXggfXX agagfdX ag gbgpdgigXlpbomfmdgaXXaafijaebfq Xee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,10,22,4,19,2,33,5,24,11,19,7,2,31,11,12,9,1,3,2,8,8,8,8,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101110111 0110110101 11110100101 1101011001 10010100101 10011100001 1101011101 1001110101 1101110101 1101010101 100100101001 1111010101 11011101000 1111011111 01110101001 1101111101 1111111001 1101111101 0101010001 0101010100 1101010101 01010111000 0101010101 1111110111 11010011011 00101011101 0111010100 1101010001 11010010101 11001010001 1101110101 1101111101 1011011101 1011111101 01001100101 1011011101 1111111111 100010101000 1101010001 110001110101 1111010101 1001011101 0101010111 1101110111 1101111011 1101110101 01000111111 1101010101 1111010111 1101010011 1011110111 10100010111 1101010111 01110110110 1101000101 1101011001 11001010111 01010101001 01011111101 011100110011 0101010001 0101010101 1101111101 01001100111 0011110111 1111110101 1111111111 1111010111 1001010011 1101111101 11111110111 0111110111 1011111000 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 1111000100 0111010111 11010101001 1101010011 1001011 1101 100101001010 1101111101 11111 111111 0101100101 1101010101 1000011101 0111110101 1101000101 11011111010 0101111101 1011010111 1101101011 1001010001 1001010101 1101010101 1101010101 0100011111 00011011101 111101100111 11011100011 011 1111111 1111 111111 1101010101 0101110111 0101011111 0100011111 1101010101 11010111000 11011110001 1101001111 1111011101 1101000101 1111010111 0101010111 1100111011 1101110111 1101010101 1101010101 1001010101 1111010101 0111010111 1001001101 1111111111 0110110111 1111111111 10110111010 1101110101 1101010101 1111110101 11011110111 1101110111 1111010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111110111 0101010010000 1101111111 0101010101 1101010101 11110000111 1111010011 10110111011 1110011101 11011111111 1101010111 10111101011 0101111111 1101010111 11000101001 1101011101 1111111111 1111010100 01001110111 1111101111 1111110101 1101100101 0110011001 0100111111 0111011101 0101010001 1100010001 1100010101 11111111001 1111111111 0111111101 0101111101 1011110101 0101010001 0101110101 01001011001 1111011111 0101111111 0111110111 1101011110 1111111111 0101110101 1100110101 1101011101 1111010111 1101110111 1101010101 1101010111 1101110101 1101010101 1101010111 1101110111 111100101110 11110101001 0100010101 10011101110 01011101110 111011101 111 1101110101 1101010011 111110011000 1011111111 1101010101 011 1110101 0111 110101 01010100101 11000011001 1111110101 0101000111 1001011101 11010010111 1101010111 1001010111 1111010111 11010101001 1101111111 1101110111 10000100101 1100011101 1001010101 0111111101 1001110101 1111001101 11010111111 1101011111 1111110111 0011111101 1101010101 0111110111 1101010111 0101110101 1101011111 10110011101 0101111101 0011010 111 1101111100 1101110101 0101010001 1111011101 1101010101 1001011101 11010100111 1111111111 1110010001 1110010001 111111010110 110000101 1111000000 1011110101 1101111010 0101010111 1101111101 1111110111 0101000101 110111101010 1100111101 01010101 101 10111101110 1101101101 1101010111 01010011001 0101011111 1011011101 11111110101 0111110101 11011 011101 01010111001 11001101100 1101011111 01011 110010 01001101101 1010111110 0101011111 1111110101 1101010111 0101101111 1101110 100 0101110111 1111110101 0101101101 1101010101 0111110101 1101011101 0101110101 11010101 0011101 11111010 1011101 10101010 10101110 11101010 11101 1110101 0011101 10111010 1111101 10101010 10101110 01101010 1011101 1111111101 1101010111 1111110111 11110101 101 0111010101 1111101101 110111 111011 1100010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 494
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 318
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, and, thus, too, him, i, in, ', her, you, he, books, faith, himself, meant, it, music, dead, heart, of, sleep, little, yet are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, i, a, he are repeated.

    The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', sleep are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words ', away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases small, all connect the lines.

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