This is an analysis of the poem My Grief On The Sea that begins with:
MY grief on the sea,
How the waves of it roll! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bXXd XeXe Xaea afXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 101001 111011 101011 010010 01101 0011010 01001 111110 11110 0010010 11001 011110 11101 11001 101001 1011010 11111 111001 001001 1111011 11001 010110 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
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