This is an analysis of the poem The Sea's Withholding that begins with:
THE ladye's bower faced the sea,
Its casements framed a sea-born day.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaa bbbccc Xddeee fffeee XaaaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 010010111 11010101 1111 0111 01010001 11010111 111100101 11010111 1101 0101 01110001 11101101 11010101 11110101 1111 0011 11010101 11110111 11011101 11011111 0111 0101 11111111 11010101 01010111 11111111 1101 1011 10011110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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