This is an analysis of the poem The Sea By The Wood that begins with:
I DWELL in the sea that is wild and deep,
But afar in a shadow still,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abAB cdcd efef efef cgcg fhfhXabAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1100110111 10100111 1110111011 0010101 0111111001 011101 1110100101 010011 011100101 110001001 111011111 0010101 11100100101 0110101 11100110101 110001 1010100101 101111 1110100101 111011 0010101 010000101 110100101 10111001 11100110111 10100111 1110111011 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; in, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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