This is an analysis of the poem The Garden Of The Sea that begins with:

THE infinite garden of the sea is His
To play in. Gravely smiling He resigns ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXaabcdaefgdegXhaXhcXaXh ahiidcdgbfgaXXhdXgbcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01001000100 0101010101 0101010101 1011000101 1001011001 1101010001 01001010101 1111011101 0101000101 1111010101 1101111100 1101111111 1100010100 01010010100 00010010101 0101000101 1101010101 0001011111 0101010101 1101010001 1111011111 11010010101 1101010101 0101010111 0101100101 0101010101 10110100101 1011000101 1011010101 1100110001 0101011101 0101111100 1101010001 0111110111 1101001100 0111110101 1001010001 1111010000 1011010101 0111110111 0100010101 0111010001 1101110011 0101111101 1101111011 0101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1009
  • Average number of words per stanza: 171
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, with, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, the are repeated.

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  • summary of The Garden Of The Sea;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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