This is an analysis of the poem Lines To Mrs. St. Leger that begins with:
Many a league of salt sea rolls
Between us, yet I think our souls,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeefc gghhii ccjjbb eXhhiicckkaaeebb iijljl Xkccmmllhhmmnn cfaaooXikkppaa hhqqggcfccccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,6,6,16,6,14,14,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10010111 01111111 11111101 11110111 110010111 11111101 1101000101 11010111 010101010 110101010 11010111 10010101 11111100 01010101 11110111 11110101 111101111 01010101 11011101 11001111 11110111 11011110 10011111 01010101 001010111 101110111 00111111 011001001 10111111 011010111 111100101 01110110 10011111 10010111 11110101 01010101 11010100 010010101 01001101 01111101 10110111 11011111 11001110011 01011101001 1111011001 1011011101 0111111111 1111111111 111111110110 1100111111 1001011101 1111010101 1110010100 10110000101 1001010100 011110011 11010111001 0110010101 10001010111 0111110100 1101010101 1111010101 1101010111 10000101100 1011010101 0101110011 1101011101 0101011101 1001001001010 1101010111 1101011111 1101010111 1101011111 0100110101 1101010111 01001111101 0111010111 1110010111 1101010001 1111001101 1111110101 0011110101 1100110111 1001110100 1011010101 0111011101 1111011011 11001110101 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 444
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; i, of, he, still, that, speak are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, the, still are repeated.
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