This is an analysis of the poem The Lowland Sea that begins with:
Oh, sailed you by the Goodwins,
Oh, came you by the Sound?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa baCX XdbX eXXX fgfgXedgdCd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 111101 1111111 11101 1100110 010101 0101011 1100010 1101011 111101 11001010 1110101 1011010 110010 11000101 110100 01110100 11011 0111010 111101 10100110 110101 11111101 010101 0101011 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
The author used the same word 'they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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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- summary of The Lowland Sea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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