This is an analysis of the poem The Sea that begins with:
Ere Greece soared, showering sovranties of light,
Ere Rome shook earth with her tremendous tread, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacccccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110010001 1111000101 1111011111 0111110011 1110111111 11010010101 10101101101 00010011101 1111000101 11110101001 11010011001 1101001001 1111010101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 662
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; ere is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ere is repeated.
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- summary of The Sea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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