This is an analysis of the poem The North Sea -- First Cycle that begins with:

l Coronation
Ho, songs! My own good songs and trusty!...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccdaea a fdgdahiejdXckahebladieg X k dhhjcdXhhhccdkhmhhcccmca X k affXgcnaXi hadga djm fdbXXhXjaoic kiedcgXccaaadjocaXhjgo aXj X d kfXXiXljicdfXcjagf adgcecekeca fkjjiXjXpcbhjhadbX djXacbec dcaahgcqjXgddjXe f a hfpdiedihdfccX djkcaXikro aemX afcddXjmah
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,1,23,1,1,24,1,1,10,5,3,12,22,3,1,1,18,11,18,8,16,1,1,14,10,4,17,6,1,1,12,15,5,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,11,4,4,1,1,9,10,10,10,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,34,19,20,5,1,1,22,1,1,21,6,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010 111101110 111111 1101010 110111 01110 110111 101111101 11111111 001011 110101001 10010101 110101 0010010010110 0101001110 110101 101101010 110111010 11101011 01001110 1010110010 11010111 111101010 11001011010 1100111 11111100 1101011 0101101010 011001 11001 1001011111 11010001 1 1011 10111 10111010010 0111011011 011101010 11101110 001001 1011010110 110010100110 010110010110 110010110110 1011101010 11010011 111011 0101011 1001010 101011011 1101101010 011100100 1111110 1011110 111101010 101010011 01010 1011101 1 11 01110111 100111001 01010101 101010100 1011110011 0101001011 01001110 10101 11001010 1001101 1110110 1011 100101101 10101011010 11010010 1101110010 110010 0101100101 10101011 0111110101 110100 101011100 111101010 1111 1101010 01010 0101001010 11101010 1111011010 100111 110100101 10110101001 111010011 101100101 110110110 110010110111 1010110111 100100111 1010001110 010010 0111 110101101 00100100111 1010010 111110110 101010010 10101110010 10010 10010110 111110 11100 110010 11011 11010011100 111110 1 01101 1011001 1101 110011101 111110010 1110101101 1010010110100 1001001 111110110 10101010 1111010 10111100111 11 01010010 11011 110010110010 101110 1110111 101001 11101110 100111101 101001011 010111110 1011 111110011 11111001110 1101101001 101101010 11001010 001001010 101101101 110110101 0010010010 01010010010 10111 11001010 1001010010 11010011010 1101 101001010 10101010 1011110 10101110 1100010 00101111 110101101 10101011110 101010 1101001011 111100110010 10101100 10111010 11000111 011010110 111101010 1111 10111111 11110111 00111011010 101001001 101001010 01010 111001010 1101011 11111110 101100 11101111101 11111 101011 1110010110 11001010010 110011010 1 010 0111010 100101001 100101001 110101110 1001001111 11101101011 10101 1110100100 11110101 011111010 1100111 01001 101011010 1010010010 1101110010 010100100110 101110010 11011 110101010 111011100101 0101011011 101111001 111110 110001010010 1011110010 11010 11111 011010 010110 111001 10011101 0111010011 01110 11011110 1110010010 11011 1111110010 0100010010 1111011111 110110010010 01110110 11001111101 0010111000 1111010011 01001010100 11010 1000111 110010101 110010 10001010 101010010 1 1010 101101011 1010001 1111011101 0110010 1111100101 1101111110 111101 110010101 111101 101101 001001001001 00101111 010111001 101111 110101100 10010010 11001 11001111010 11001011111 01011011110 1011101110 1101011 11001 00101010110 0111011010 110101010 101111 11011011 1101001001 110011111010 1010010010 101111 1 010010 01101110 01011010 111111 111011 11011010 110011 11011110 1011011 1111010 101101 111011010 1101101 10111010 1010011100 11111110 10101010 111010100 10101010 10011010 10011010 0011010 00101010 11011010 10101010 10111010 10111010 111010010 111110010 001010110 101110010 10111110 10111010 111010110 11000110 111010100 11101110 10111010 10101010 11100010 01110010 10101010 11101110 001011010 01111010 101011010 101111110 11101110 00111010 010111010 10011110 10111011 11011010 1010110 1111011 10010010010 110110 01011 1110010 1101101011 10111011010 01010 010110010110 110110101 01110111110 1101011101 11001111110 1101110101 100101001110 0101011101 1101010110100 1101110101 1 1 11001 111010 101010110 10011011010 11001010 1001100 10010 11001011 01010110100 11 10010011101 11001110011 111001010 111010011 110011010 110101101 101011010 111110101 11011 01111011 11101001001 0010110 1111011011 101101 100111010 1010011 101001 1010111000 10111010 110101010 101010110 11001001 110111010 10101011 10101101 11101111 10111101110 110101 100101001 1 1 10101010 100101010 10111010 101011101 10101010 10101010 101010100 110101011 10101110 10111010 10100111 1001000010 10101011 10101011 11110111 00111010 10100011 10101110 10101011 10101110 10101011 11101010 10101110 10100010 1 101 11011010010 01110010 1110101110 11010110 11001100 11010011 1101010010 1010110110 111111010010 10101000 11001 1101001010 0111111010 1101110010 101101010 10111011 11001010 111001011 1100111010 01001110 1101001010 101010010 1010110110 101001110 11010100 1011001001 1100010110 110 01011010 0111100011 1010011 001010 011010010 1100101 11111101 00010010 1100101010 10011 11011 111101010 11010101 1111010 111110 11010101 10111011 001110 111110101 100111010 1101010 0101 1101101 10110101 11111101011 1111011 1101001 010110 1110111 1111001010 11001 110101101 1001111111 110111 1100101 11111 111111 11111101110 1111 1111110 11110 11010010111 11101101 101010011 1011011 1001011 010010111 11110010 11010010 1011110 1 10010 110111010 01001 11111001 111101010 111101 0111110011 110111101 111010101 11111110 101110110 111111110 1011100101 0100 111111010 01010 01010010010 01010 10101101 100111011 10011001010 10011 11010111 1 1 101001110 1111001 0111 110110010010 1001011010 110101101 01001 0111010 110101 10111 01110010 01111010 10111 1101001 01110 01010101 1010101011 1101010 101011001 100110 10111 101110100 11101010 101001101 11001001110 0111011010 1101 1101001101 11001011 010010110 1101110010 1001110110 11010 11110100 111111010 1100111111000 11011010 11011 001110010 1100100101 01010 11011101 100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 80
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 564
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; as, and, of, me, in, o, my, her, thee are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i'll, as, and, on, in, o, the, to, calm, thou, his are repeated.

    The author used the same word calm 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 queen, daughter, everywhere, heaven, storm, heart, thee, one, town are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words queen, ', love at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases down, come, everywhere, calm, you connect the lines.

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