This is an analysis of the poem Seaweed that begins with:
When descends on the Atlantic
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ccXddX cXcddc ddecce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110010 0010 1100101 10001110 01010 10011001 01001010 01010 0111110 00101010 1010 1001101 001001110 010010 10001100 10101110 1110 10100101 10101010 1010 1000101 10101110 01010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, drifting are repeated.
The author used the same word from at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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