This is an analysis of the poem Morning At Sea In The Tropics that begins with:

NIGHT waned and wasted, and the fading stars
Died out like lamps that long survived a feast, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcXdceXcfcfdadXXfbcdXcXfddaXcXedfecacdcbXbXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 47,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111010101 1111110101 1011010101 0101111001 1101100101 1101010101 11010100001 100111001001 1101010001 11010011101 11010101001 1111111101 1111010101 1101010101 111101011 1101010101 0111010111 1101010101 1111110101 1001010111 1101110101 1111010111 1101010101 1101110101 1001010101 1101100111 1111010101 1111011101 1111110101 1001000101 1101010001 11001010101 1101101101 1001010001 1101110011 0101010101 1101011101 0101011101 1101010101 1011011111 11010100101 11100010101 01010011101 1101010111 0101010101 1101011111 100110001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2333
  • Average number of words per stanza: 390
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; and, her are repeated.

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