This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written At Sea (Ii) that begins with:
Why art thou weeping
Over the happy, happy dead,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbccddXXaAB Abeeccffgg hhiiAB ddjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 10010101 11101 00101 00101 001000 01010 01110 0100110 11110 11101 11110 10011101 11101 11111 1101 00101 00111 10111 111110 01110 1111 1011 00100 00100 11110 11101 111101 110111 0110011111 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word why at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Lines Written At Sea (Ii);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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