This is an analysis of the poem Across The Sea that begins with:
THE confines of our being are not these
White limbs of sense. Our true selves broader are... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXccXdeXadea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0110110111 1101111101 1101010101 0101011111 1101010101 1 10011101010 1010100010001001010 11010101000 10110110111 1101110001 1 1111110111 1111011101 01001111101 110111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 725
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, to, our, tho' are repeated.
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