This is an analysis of the poem When You Are On The Sea that begins with:
How can I laugh or dance as others do,
Or ply my rock or reel?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefghghhdXdadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111101 111111 1101010101 011101 1101111001 111111 1110111011 110101 1101101101 111111 1101011101 111001 1111111111 011101 1011011111 111111 1101011111 111110 1101110111 111101 1111111111 110100 1111011111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 820
- Average number of words per stanza: 178
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; my, or, he, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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