This is an analysis of the poem At Sea that begins with:
Three are emerald pools in the sea,
And wing-like flashes of light;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba acbc XaXa Xcdc daXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001001 1111001 01010010 00101 111001 1101101 010011011 11011 1111110 1001101 100010010 10111 1010011010 1010101 100010010 10100101 110010110 001101 101001011 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
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