This is an analysis of the poem Letter Written On A Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound that begins with:
I am surprised to see
that the ocean is still going on. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddedfghiXjdddikldkmhhmnhhjooaonhXjgfhbghjhjmbddhhghjcmdjcdnfdjXjiXXbghXnhnnhoehhilglhXhhhggXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 96,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 101001101 111101 111111 01111111 1111001 11111 11110111 101101101 1111 11011011 01001 10 11101110 10110 010101 01001010 0110011 101001 11110 001001 1 111 1111 0101011 101101010 11111 0011111 010101 010111101 1011 11111 1111 101110 1111 111011 11011 010110 1010101 11001100 0101010 01101 011 1101 11101 1101 110 11 11 1111101 111 1111 101101 11101 011 100101 1100101 10111011 10101 0011011 111011 10010 111 10011 10 11111101 1001011011 01110 1011 11010010 101 11001011 1110101 11100110 10110 110101 1010010 1010 11111 1101 00101 111101101 101010 1110100 101011 111110 11101 101 11110 01011 11 11 11101 001010101 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1130
- Average number of words per stanza: 207
- Amount of lines: 95
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, that, their, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, that, as, or are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines happened, eyes are repeated).
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