This is an analysis of the poem Veneta Marina that begins with:

The masts rise white to the stars,
White on the night of the sky,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccba adddda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111001 1101001 100101 10111001 110111 1101101 1111001 0100101 1010101 110101 10110101 1001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; white, stars, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines stars is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word stars at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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