This is an analysis of the poem The Wardens Of The Seas that begins with:

Like star points in the ether to guide a homing soul
Towards God's Eternal Haven; above the wash and roll, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcbcX ddeefgfg hXffcici jjkkXlkl ggiicdXd bbhmkfkf jjbbfhfm ggffcjXX fXbbkbkb hhbbnknk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010010101 01101010010111 01110010110111 1100010110001 1111010 111111 1111110 100100 1101010010111 1101010110111 1101010110111 0110110011101 1110110 111101 1011010 1100110001 1101110110111 0101010110100 1101010111101 0111010110101 1110010 1010111 1111010 110101 01010100100101 1101010011111 0101010010101 0111100110101 1101010 100101 1101011 110101 0100100111101 1101010100101 1101010110101 0101010111101 11010110 110101 1101110 1100101 1101010110111 0111110110101 1101011110101 0100110110100 1101010 110101 1100110 110101 011010110010111 1111010111101 1110011010101 1011010010101 1111110 100101 1101110 110100 110101000110101 1101010100101 0101110111111 1111011111101 1101110 110001 1101110 111100 1101110010101 1101010010100 1101110011111 0101010111111 1101110 111101 1001010 110111 1111010010111 0101010111111 0111110111111 1101011010111 1110010 110101 1101110 110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 423
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long 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; and, in, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and, these are repeated.

    The author used the same words when, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Wardens Of The Seas;
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