This is an analysis of the poem Drowned At Sea that begins with:
Gloomy cliffs, so worn and wasted with the washing of the waves,
Are ye not like giant tombstones round those lonely ocean graves?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefgghhddddXef Xeeiiddaaaaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111100010001 111110111110101 1110101001000101 1001111000100111 111011101110101 10111011000101 1110101011100111 111111101000110 110110 110110 1001 101110101011101 101010111010101 0111101010011101 101010101011001 0111100101110101 111111101110111 101000101000111 101111101000110 110100 110110 1001 11111010 1111111 111010101110111 111001101010101 101010100010101 111111100011101 111010101011101 101010101011101 111011111010110 010110 010110 111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 898
- Average number of words per stanza: 160
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, them, like, cried are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words are, oh, dear, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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