This is an analysis of the poem To A Sea Shell that begins with:
Friend of my chamber--O thou spiral shell
That murmurest of the ever-murmuring sea! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaabbacdbdbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011011101 110000101001 0100010100 1101000111 1101001111 1101000110 11010101001 1100111111 1111011001 1011110101 0101100101 1001000101 1001010101 01100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 567
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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