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

THE SEA is large.
The sea hold on a leg of land in the Chesapeake hugs an early sunset and a last morning star over the oyster beds and the late...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXX aX Bc BX cX aX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101 0111010100101111011101101100101101110101 111010111011111001 111010111 101011110011 11010101 1111011111101110111011111 11010101 111111011010011011000011 011101011101 1110101110111 0101 0111111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sea, of, i, many, so are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words i, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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