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

Give me the sunlight and the sea
And who shall take my heaven from me?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AA bbbccddeeffgghhiijj hhbbkkllgg bbggbbaXffgg mmffccccnnooeemmXAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,19,10,12,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11011101 111111001 10011001 1101010 11010111 1010011 01110101 10011001 1010101 100111001 1011011 10101001 1011101 110010111 11010101 1100110101 11101001 11010101 11010101 11010101 10010111 11010011 1111101 1011111 1110101 100111010 10111010 1010101 1000101 1011101 1011101 1011111 00110101 11111111 1010001 1111101 1111101 010001001 10110100 110101010 111111110 10011101 001010111 10010101 01010100 10101010 10101110 10011111 11010001 10100111 11111101 11010001 11010101 101100111 11110111 11111110 10010100 011001101 01010101 11011101 111111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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