This is an analysis of the poem Above Where I Am Sitting, O'Er These Stones that begins with:
Above where I am sitting, o'er these stones,
The ocean waves once heaved their mighty forms;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcdcddddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01111101011 0101111101 1101010101 1001010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101010111 010010101001 0101110101 1100010001 11010011101 1001010011 1101010101 010011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 636
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; change, of, and are repeated.
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