This is an analysis of the poem To Her Sea-Faring Lover that begins with:
SHALL I thus ever long, and be no whit the neare?
And shall I still complain to thee, the which me will not hear?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccbbddddee ddffee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101101101 11110101011011 011111101111 11011101111111 011111111111 11111111010110 010101110111 11111101010001 111111111101 11111101111101 011111111101 11111111111011 111111011101 11111101010111 101101111101 11111111011111 1101001010111 11110111111111 101111111111 11000111111111 011111111101 11010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 634
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, say, thee, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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