This is an analysis of the poem The Bride Of The Sea that begins with:
Black loom the crags of the uplands behind me,
Dark are the sands of the far-stretching shore.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca cdcd efef gege chch ihih ibib hdhd igig jajX Xkgk igig ieie ilil iaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010011 1101001101 11011111011 1000001101 11010111010 1001101001 10011010110 1101001001 11010111110 1101111001 11110011010 1001111001 10010111110 1001011011 10110111110 1001001011 11011111010 11011001011 11010010011 1101001101 10111010010 1001101101 10010111010 1101011101 10111010110 1001101011 11010110110 1011001001 11011110010 1001011001 10110010010 1001111011 10111011110 1101101001 11011011110 1111001001 10111111110 10011011101 11011010110 1011111011 10010010110 1011011011 11111011010 1001001101 10110010110 1001000101 10011110110 10011001011 10010011010 10111010011 10101110010 1001001011 10110011010 1111101011 11011111110 0111001011 10011110010 1101111011 10010110110 1011101001 10010011110 1011001001 11110110100 1011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word never is repeated.
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