This is an analysis of the poem Gone From My Sight that begins with:

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,
spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXb X X cac bXXX X Xc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,1,1,3,4,1,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100101101111 10110010111 101101011001011 11110011111101 01111011110100110 111111111010 11 10111011011101 11111111111 11011100101010100101 00101001100 111010111111010 111011001011010 100110111110 11010 1100110011 101011010100010000
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, she, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words gone, death are repeated.

    The author used the same word gone at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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