This is an analysis of the poem Apostrophe To The Ocean that begins with:

CLXXVIII.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababbcbccXcdcddddddXaaaaaeaeeXafaffbfbXXeeeeegeggXhhhXhdhddXeeeeebebb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 70,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1001000101 1001010101 1001001101 1011110001 1111011101 0111010111 0111011001 0100010111 111101110101 1 1111111101 1101110101 1101010001 10010101001 0111111101 0110110101 1101010101 11001101001 01011001000101 1 0111011111 1101111101 1110101111 1101011101 1010110001 11110001101 1100011101 0101011111 110101011111 1 0100110001 0111010101 1111001100 011001111 1101001101 0101110001 1111110101 1100110111 0101001110010 1 11110010111 01001110111 11010101101 11001011101 0101110101 1111010111 1001011101 1111011101 11101101101 1 110010101001 1001010011 11100011111 1001100101 1101010101 0100010001 000100100111 0100011111 011111110001 1 1111110111 0101111100 1111010001 11000110101 00011001001 1001010101 1111000101 1100110111 111101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2823
  • Average number of words per stanza: 518
  • Amount of lines: 70
  • 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; there, i, of, in, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, from, and are repeated.

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