This is an analysis of the poem Sea-Mews In Winter Time that begins with:
I walked beside a dark gray sea.
And said, 'O world, how cold thou art!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efeX gbgb afXf afaf ahah baba hchc iaia fXfXXbfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 11111111 11111101 11110101 11011101 11011101 010100111 01010101 11011101 101100101 110101001 11010101 11110101 110111001 1110001001 01011011 01110101 11110111 11110100 010001101 110001001 10110111 11011101 10011011 01000111 110101001 010010001 110010101 11110111 01011101 01111001 11111101 10011101 11011101 010110111 10010101 11010111 10011101 10111101 01010101 11010101 11011101 11101111 110111110 01110101 11011001 11111001 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, that, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words joy, not are repeated.
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