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

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Greeting to the Sea...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a a XBbcadef eegXbegaXXBhaibbfjbdf jXechicadiffbeX ccacbbifgXebaaaX X i gdkcXhebcXhflhfbfmXhfjgbX X n bopkdbqbkbhcanb ejcp dkgibfXcXXbg caXhXeecbXg jgogkd X c oadcXXdboXii XdecadfXXedbbffrbf gonosbiXfXXbegdgfhcbkXX a X aodcgaeqddbbje jXeecXbgfddd gedoagci
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,8,21,15,16,1,1,25,1,1,15,4,12,11,6,1,1,12,18,23,1,1,14,12,16,14,25,6,1,1,8,6,70,6,9,1,1,4,10,4,1,1,6,10,15,1,1,4,16,12,5,27,1,1,4,11,14,12,10,7,8,1,1,23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 10001 100100 1111111001 111111101 01001 011111 1101110 1101000100100 1011101 010010 010110 01110010 01001010 010101011 1101110 1010011110110 1101110101 1001100 1 1111111001 11011110110 11011110011 0101011001 1100011100010 0111010011 0111001010 0111011010 1101110011 111100011 110110101 111111001011 1011010 10010011010 1011011 1011010010 01101001011 11110010 110010011 010001101010 101101001010 1011101011 11110010 1101111011 101011011110 100100 110101 111101 010101001011 01110110 10110010 01110110 100101110 0101111001 11011001 01111100011 0111001110 1101010100 11110001 1101011111 1101001 100100 1 101 0110111010 11010101 10100101 110011010 101001010 1001010010 1010110 1100101110 1101001 101001010100 101110010010 1111101 11001001101 1010010 111100101 1010010010 11110010011 11111111 011101110 10100101010 1011111010 010010010 1101010010 1101101001 1110011000 1 10 11111111010 111110110 110001111 11011 0111001 1101101010 10011110110 1101110011 011101001 100101010 11010 101110110 101001001 01111001 110111110 01110001110 1011001011 111010110110 111001001 01010010 010101001 010011001 110101011 0110010 110101 001001001100 01011001 101100100 1011100100 110101110 1011010 1110111 10011101 0100100101 1111111010 11001010010 100111011010 10111011010 11111111 11011010 11111010 111110010010 1110111 1101011010 11111111110 01001001 11011011 00111 1 11 01010 1101000001 0100101101 00101 110101 101001010 101001001 101001110 110110110 11011010 11011001110 0101 1100011 111101001 01100111100 110110110 011110100 01001001011 11011010 01001110010 010100101 0101010 0101001010 1011110 1100101110 0011011100 1001010010 1111101 00111110010 00101 11101111 1111101110 111011010011 110111101100 010101001 11100100101 10101001 110110 100100 01001110110 11111110110 11011010 1100010010 0111110010 1111001011 010011011010 11011001110 011010010 1111111011 101101010 0100101011 1101010110 110111010 1 0100100 100101001 1101001110 10110111 11011101 1011111010 11100101001 101001110 11011010 11011001111 0111110 11111101111 101101010 0101110 11111001010 111011 110101010000 0101011010 1110110100 1101010110 111010111010 1110101010 01001001101 11111010001 110111010 101011110 111110010 11111101010 010110010010 111010011011 1101011110 01111010111 1101110010 11001111 11001011110 1100101111 111010110 0101001001 0100101101 11010110 001001110 11110010 1110111110 10111111 110011110 1110100100 010101001 0100011110 10101101 111001010 1100101101 110110010 10100100 0100100101 11000110010100 0100101010 1110110 111111001 110010 110111101100 110011010 111111 11011 11111011 111101010010 011110 111111001 11111110 0101101101010 01001011001 11101010011 01010010110 111101111 110101001 111111001 110111011 1111011011110 11001110010 110010110110 110110101 10101110010 00101 1100100100 0100100101 11101011010 000111001 11011 11111001010 1 0101 110110111 010011101 01010110010 0101101110 101010010 1011110 110101010 010010 10011111101 1101010110 11010011000 11011010 1101110010 11110010 111100010111 010101 11001010010 10010 1101001010 11101101 111011110010 11001101001 1001011011 111100101 1101011011 11010111 11111110010 110011110110 010111010 11101011010 11011010100 1001000 111111110 0101100101 010010110110 1111101010 11111111 110011011110 110111111 01010011 1010101101 1111110010 011101111 010010010 11111011010 101011010 110010010111 1111001110 11111011011 1101001111 111101101 101000 11010111 1011001 1100110010 0101001 110001101001 11001100 1100101101 101010 1101001010 01010110010 011000010 1101111011 1111001010 110101101 110010110010 10011 111111011 111010 1110010 11110111 11110111011 1111111011 1111111010 01010011010 11110101 1111001010 1101111010 1111100101 101110010 100111010101 111110110 11011010 111111010 11010010010 11010010010 11001001011 11111001001 1111111110 1111011100 111011010 1111101010 100011110010 0111110 1001111010 101001 11110100010 01010 1 10 1110101001 10111 01101011010 10101110010 11001111 11111010 101101010110 101101010 101011011 10100101010 110101010 11101001 111101111 1111001010 010110110010 1101011110 0111100010011 10111010 1 010 110111001 11011 001011010 1101110110 11110110110 110101010 111111 001011100010 1101010010 11111 100111010 11101101110 101110 110001011100 11001001001 111111 101001111011 1111111011 110110010110 1011110010 1101110010 010010010000 01110011 101000101 100111 11001010 010010111100 1110101101 11011111101 100010 111111 1 110 01011110 10111001001 110100101 1011101 1110111010 111111010110 010101010 11011101 11011101110 1101100101 11101010110 11010010011 010110110110 011010010 11110110110 1101010010 1100111110 1110101101000 11110110100 111110111101 1010011 00110101 10111001011 10100110101 1101101101 000100101 101110101 1111010 10101001010 110010 110001001101 1101101 1010110110 01110 011111001 0101101110 11011001010 101010011001 1011100101 111110111 110101 110111010010 0101011010 11011110 1101110 11011001010 1110111010 110010010010 11011011110 0101011010 1101110110 1101010 010111011 1111011010 101001001000011 1011000101 11001001010 110110110 101011011010 1101 1110010110 110100101 111101101 1111110111 1 010 10011110010 11010010011 11011101 0010110110 1101011110 010001010 1101001000 1001001011 1111001 10110100010 11111011 101011010 01110110110 11111010110 1101101111 1111111010 1101110 1101010 01001001010 1101010 110100101101 110101000100101 1001010 010110100110 10100111111 011010111111 1111101011 110010010 111010 0101111010 111110 10011010010 11111110101 1010110011100 110010110011111001110 1111110010 111010100 0100101001 101100010111 1010111010 010101 1110 100011011010 1101111100 1101010010 11110101100 1001101010 1111101 110111010 1101010010 111001010 10101100111 011011 1100110101 11010110010 111011110 1101101011 110010010010 110010010010 01101001010 01010001110 111011010 010010110010 011011 1101101111 10100101 1 101 1001101011 11111001001 1010 111001110 01010110110 111010 111010 010010011110 1011111010 110010010 101011011 1011 1101011 10110010 01010 011111 010101010 110111100011 11011110010 1001011 101001011011 111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 66
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 595
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, those, all, and, my, it, her, its, sweet, she, in, fool, thou, his, thy, thee, i, heads, water, how, fair, me, world, flowers, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, like, of, and, a, the, heads, for, how, mine, blue are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sea, paleness, curving, creatures, water, haven, bremen, flowers are repeated).

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

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