This is an analysis of the poem Of Pearls And Stars that begins with:
The pearly treasures of the sea,
The lights that spatter heaven above,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cdec Xdad X e eedb fdebXfdfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,1,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010001 011101001 11011101 11011011 0101001001 10110111 110011101 11110111 11010101 001101001 110111111 11111111 0100100100111011011101011011 01101 01101 010101 11111 11101 11011010 110011 1101111 101111 1101010 110111 111011010 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, hath, its, sea, my, heart are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pearls is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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