This is an analysis of the poem Sea Change that begins with:
There was fog off the Foreland, white as wool, and Billy he says, says he.
'If ever I win the Calcutta Sweep, a thing as might easy be,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccXdXX aacXaaaaddXX aaaaXceeXddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101001111101111 11011011010111100 11111110111001111 0111110011100111 11110010111010011110 11110011110101010 111010100100110101 11110111011111011 111111011111111 11111010010101111 111110101110101011 1011011001111011 1101011011101101 11110010011110011 11010011010111101 11010110011110100 11010010011101110 111001101011110111 101010010111110101 11001001011111011 111111011110101 0111001010111101 0111011010010011 1011011001111001 1001011011101111 111111111011000111 1001101111011101 1101101111011101 101010111110111011 111101001001101101 110111011111011101 0111011010100111 111111011111111 0111010111110111 111111011111111 011100100110110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 860
- Average number of words per stanza: 172
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 71 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, an', you, to, o', he, says, ole, glad are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words instead, an' 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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