This is an analysis of the poem Whales Weep Not! that begins with:
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains
the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab Xaac aabdaec XebX aXXXcafe febdbaac Xcac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,7,4,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010110101 01010110100110 10100101111111 1111101010 0110110101010 11111111111001 111111101001010 10100101 1101110101 1001010101 11010101011 1011110101 0011001 1101011000101 110010100010110011 01110101101011101 00110111001110010 110010011101001001 0101101001110111 11011001 010000011100 11110110010001001 1100100101110 10101011101011101 1100111110001000010101 11110110111001 11010101000101 11011111001001 01001101001 110100001001 1101011011 1101000101 110101 110010101100110 1001010101001101 1001110111100101 1101011111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and, with, of, whales, in, she, happy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, she are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Whales Weep Not!;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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