This is an analysis of the poem The Sea Is History that begins with:
Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?
Where is your tribal memory? Sirs,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb cdc cdae dfdX gah XXf dfa baa chX cXd aif ifc ajf afa aac XXb Xaa aaj g edf fbf bXf afg aad aba djXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110011010 101101001 01110101 1101010100 1110101 10110 11011010010 01000101 111100 110011 01010 100 110011001 010 1010101000111 110100100 1100110 0111011 0101001010010 10110101100 10110 110010010 0010100 1010110110 101100 11010110110 11011 10110110 10111111101 1010101 00101100110 11110 1101101 10010011 11101101 10111101 11110111111 01101101 11000010 101010011 0101010101 11010101011 11110100 1011 11010 1010010101 01011111 001111 1111000 1111000 011100 11111010101 0110100 101100001 11100101 101001 100101 101111101100 11011010 001011 11101010 101011010 10010 10111001 1111100 11101 11111000110 1101001 1101010010 11011100101 10101010 111100100 101011001 10101010010 01001110 11001101 10011001 01111101 1010011010 010010010
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sea, your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, and, then 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lamentations is repeated).
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