This is an analysis of the poem Sea that begins with:
The sea here's the sea
It was born in the Year of Our Lord...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abbbbc Ababdd eeXfcc gddgha ihiiii bjbjkk ggaddl ddXmjj dbbddd fmmiii aeaenn ggggii ddffoo ejjedd ibibjj eaeagg bllbddXbcbcee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01101 011001011 111111001 011001 110101101 0101111101 01101 11111111 1111110 101001011 0101110100 1101001111 101101 1101111101 01101111 110111101 0111110011 1101110111 1110110110 1110110111 010100101 11011101010 1110110 11111011001 1111110101 1101111110 101110101101 11111111 11001111 0010001011 1100110101 01101010 1101010111 10110010010 1011101010 10010010110 11101111011 010101011 0111010001 111001 10101 1111100 001111 1010101 101011001010 110110001 11010101 1100111 11010111 111101 01000101 000100101 0101110101 1001110111 10100101 0101101 011101111 0101011111 01101011 11101111 1011101001 101001011 1110111011 010100011 10011101001 1101011111001 010111101 11110101 01111111 11110111 0001111001 0110101 010001101 1000111011 10010111 00111 11110101 01010101 1011111 1111101 111011001 01100111 1111111111 11111 010101110 0101001 111111 111011 100111001 111111 11101011 1101010101 1011011 110110101 11000101010 10110010 11101 0110100 0011010100 0100101 1011001 01100111 1011010100101 10100111 010101101 1101101 11110110101 0111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; nought, and, of, in, its, those, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, its are repeated.
The author used the same words the, oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines remained is repeated).
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