This is an analysis of the poem By The Margin Of The Great Deep that begins with:

WHEN the breath of twilight blows to flame the misty skies,
All its vaporous sapphire, violet glow and silver gleam, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdXd ecec XbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1010111010101 1010010010011101 0110111011001 11100101 1011111110101 10010101010101 1011111001010 11101111 01101001011111 1010101000011 1010101111101 11100101 1111111011111 0010101111111 11001011000101 10100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of By The Margin Of The Great Deep;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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