This is an analysis of the poem In The Harbour: The City And The Sea that begins with:
The panting City cried to the Sea,
'I am faint with heat,--O breathe on me!' ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX XX XX bb ccXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010101001 111011111 1011111111 010010101 10100101 01101000 100101001 0010010111 0100101001 1011111011 1101101000 11001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; to is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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