This is an analysis of the poem The Sea Maiden that begins with:

I drew her out of the wave
High up on the windy shore....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcBXdcdcebecfXf XgcgbchcfhhhcdhdhdXd XgcghdgddhXhabcB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,20,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101001 1110101 1100111 1101101 1111101 1100111 1101011 1111110 1110111 1110111 0100111 1100111 1101011 1110111 1111001 1011101 11101110 1101101 1100111 1100111 1101101 1100101 1100101 1010101 1100101 1100101 1101111 1010101 1100101 1111101 0100101 1101001 1110101 1110101 11111001 1100101 1101111 1111001 0111001 010111 1101001 1111101 1101001 1101001 1101001 1111001 1100101 1110101 11101001 1110101 1100111 1101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 522
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; her, i, and, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, at, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sea is repeated).

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  • summary of The Sea Maiden;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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