This is an analysis of the poem The Sea And The Skylark that begins with:
On ear and ear two noises too old to end
Trench—right, the tide that ramps against the shore; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba cdcXdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111101101 1101110101 001101111111 1001111111 1111110101 011110111 0101111111 11101110111 1111010111 1111110101 1011111111 1111110111 1111011101 01111101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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