This is an analysis of the poem Mother Carey that begins with:
As late I went a-walking by the sea,
I thought I heard men talking, I heard them call to me:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX cccX ddaa bbcX eeff ggcXXcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010101 1111110110101 110101011010101 011101010100110 111101010111 100010110101 11001110010111 101011111101 1111010101 11011101110101 0101011110111 0111010110101 111101010111 100010110001 10001001110101 101011111101 1111010010101 1111101110111 1110011110101 1111010010101 1111010111010 1010101101010 1111101111111 101011111101 1101101101 001110101011 111011011111 110101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, to, walking, you, all, go, bound are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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