This is an analysis of the poem Bone And Sinew And Brain that begins with:
YE white-maned waves of the Western Sea,
That ride and roll to the strand, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaBcDCd bebebfbf fcfXdgdg bgbghghg gbgbfafa dgdgcicicjcjXaBaBcDCddgdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,25,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111100101 1111001 111110101 10111011 11100110111 11101111 11100110101 0011011 1101010101 0010111 1111001001 1010101 110101101 1110101 0100100101 10101101 1010101111 1010101 10110101100 11001010 1011110101 10100101 10101100101 11111011 101010101101 0010111 110100111 00101001 1010010100 0111101 101110011 00101001 010100101 1110101 10100100101 00100101 1010010101 1000111 1100100101 10101011 111100101 10100101 1011110101 01010111 1101100011 11000111 1010100101 11110101 1110100101 01101101 10100101001 00110011 111100101 1111001 111110101 10111011 1110100111 11101111 11100110101 0010101 1110110101 10100101 111011101 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; ye, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, and are repeated.
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