This is an analysis of the poem Out In The Open that begins with:
OUT in the open, I long to be free,
Where the song that I hear is the song of the sea,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccdd Aaeeffggbb Aahhiiggbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001011001 101111001001 101111001011 01001001001 11011000001 110110011111 110010011010 1010000110010 101101011011 11101101111 1001011001 01001001001 01001111011 01101001011 11101011101 11101101011 11101011001 01001101011 01111011111 11101001001 1001011001 01001001000 01111001001 11101001011 011101011001 10001011101 11001101101 11111101001 11001011001 11000111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 452
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, not, to, and, men are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, to are repeated.
The author used the same word out at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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