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

Soft soft wind, from out the sweet south sliding,
Waft thy silver cloud webs athwart the summer sea;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXabab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101110 111011010101 111011101010 1010101011111 111011101010 1100111111111 1101011101010 1010111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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

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