This is an analysis of the poem Love At Sea that begins with:
WE ARE in love’s land to-day;
Where shall we go?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBabaaAB ccXddeA ddfeefa gghbbhA iifeef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,7,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101 1111 111111 1111 10100111 1100111 1101101 1111 110001 010101 1110 110001 111111 1111 1101101 110111 111101 1111 111111 111111 1101 1101101 111111 110111 1111 11010101 1101001 11001 1101101 111111 111111 1111 011111 111101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, we, our, flowers, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, or are repeated.
The author used the same word our at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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