This is an analysis of the poem The Sea that begins with:
Who lay against the sea, and fled,
Who lightly loved the wave,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 110101 11011101 0111001 10010111 110100 11010101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Sea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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