This is an analysis of the poem A Message From The Sea that begins with:

The stormy afternoon was past,
And in the dim grey sky,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdd aeaeff gcXcdX bhahgg ahahdd adXdaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010111 100111 01110101 110101 11110001011101 11010101110101 01110111 010101 11110011 111101 10010100010111 11111101110101 11011101 011001 01111111 0111001 11011101110111 110111111111010 01011001 110101 10111101 1100101 110101011101001 10111111110101 11111101 010101 111111111 110001 11110101010101 01011101100111 01110101 010111 11110110 010101 11011101110111 110101010010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, her, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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