Lines Written At Sea (I) by Frances Anne Kemble: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written At Sea (I) that begins with:

Dear, yet forbidden thoughts, that from my soul,
While shines the weary sun, with stern control... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbcdcddedeeebbffXXXfXdfc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110011011 1101010101 1101111101 1000110100 11010110110 11111100010 1101111111 1101010011 1111010101 0011111111 1101101101 11001010001 1011001101 1011000101 11110100001 010101010 11111100101 1111110101 1101001101 1111011101 1111001100 1101111000 1111110101 11011111110 10111110110 0011010101 1111110101 0011011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 231
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

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