This is an analysis of the poem North Atlantic that begins with:

WHEN the sea is everywhere
from horizon to horizon .. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdcee bfXb gd hX Xfch gigjaekjXid abib ikl bccd bkkXgfb kiefeifjX jeejjd Xdh adkjded XlXfik
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,2,2,4,11,4,3,4,7,9,6,3,7,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 00100010 10111 10100010 1101111 0101011011 1011011011 11101010 111010110 01011010010 11011 0101101 11011110 0111 11011101 0110110 010010011010 11011111 1101111 011101 1101 011101 1101 11111001 11111011 11111011 10111 0010100111 00101111 000110 11111001 100101010 0011101 0111111 101110111101 10111110111 10101010 1101001001 11101 11101 1011100100 00100111 101010011 10101000110 0010000100 11 011001110 10 110110101111 11110101101011 110111 11110110 1001011 100101 111010 101000 1001010 1101111 11111100101 110110010010 1011 1011 111110111 11011001011110 1101010011011011111 111010110101011 101110101100001 01101101 01101101 111101 010100010 01010010 1010111 100101111101 100101111010 1110010 1101001 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2976
  • Average number of words per stanza: 524
  • Amount of lines: 93
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; sea, bird, on, it, and, they, i, man's, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, the, it, on, i, and, between, out are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines else, you, it, night are repeated).

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  • summary of North Atlantic;
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