This is an analysis of the poem At Sea I Learned The Weather that begins with:
At sea I learned the weather,
At sea I learned to know...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acdcXeXe dfXfXgcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 111101 1111010 101101 1111010 110101 1100110 010101 1011110 110101 11110100 010001 1101010 010111 1110010 111101 0111010 111101 1111010 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 at is repeated.
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