This is an analysis of the poem The Drop, That Wrestles In The Sea that begins with:
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The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea—... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 011100010 010110000 1100010 110110110 11010010010 1100 010000000100 1101010000 10000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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