This is an analysis of the poem River And Sea that begins with:
Under the light of the silver moon
We two sat, when our hearts were young; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc fcfcff gagacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100100101 11111101 011100101 1100110101 11011011101 011111101 011110111 01001001001 0100110101 11011101011 111111101 110011111 1110101111 1010011101 11111101001 0100111111 01011001001 1010100111 11011110110 111111101 1111101010 1110111111 111111101 1101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, eyes, your, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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