This is an analysis of the poem The Long White Seam that begins with:
As I came round the harbor buoy,
The lights began to gleam,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacAdeXe dfXfbfgahA heXedegaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010 010101 11011101 010111 111111101 100111 01100111 11111 01111101 111101 11010101 110111 101010111 1101001 101010101 111101 1100101 011011 110011110 100111 11010101 111001 11111111 1011101 101111111 110101 11110111 10101001 01010111 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, that, for are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word seam at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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