This is an analysis of the poem To Nora May French (Ii) that begins with:

Importunate, the lion-throated sea,
Blind with the mounting foam of winter, mourns...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefagfcdfhbfaiXjXkidXjielfbigbX mfXehfcaadXdbbXbbXXff X ndoXaindXXckocagbdoXdbadmdcibblangbieabbXefdg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,21,1,45,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1000010101 1001010101 0111011101 0100110101 1001110101 1110010001 1111010111 0101010101 10010100101 1101110101 0111110101 0101010101 1101110001 1101010101 1101110101 10010111001 11000101111 0101011100 11110111001 110101100 1101010101 1001011101 0111010001 1010001110 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101100101 0101111101 11010100001 0100010101 0100010101 0101011111 01011000 111 11110010100 1100100100 11010010111 00101010001 10010100101 11010010111 0101011101 000110001 01010100111 1000010101 00110010001 1111010101 01010010100 1111010111 100010001 110101101 10010101000 01010101010 01010010101 1101011101 1 1111011001 010110001 1001011101 11110001010 1111010101 01000110001 1101010111 0101110111 01001110100 1111110111 1101110101 10010101011 1101010111 1110010101 0101010001 1101110001 0100110101 0101010101 0101010011 0110001101 110001001 1101100111 1101110101 100001111 0101110111 1111010001 01000110111 01000101001 11010010101 1101111100 0101010001 1101010101 011011111 0111010001 1101010101 0001011101 11110101001 1000100100101 10111110101 0100110001 1101001100 1101110111 010100011 100001100010 1111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1032
  • Average number of words per stanza: 181
  • Amount of lines: 101
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

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