This is an analysis of the poem Wind O' The Sea that begins with:
O WANDERING minstrel, wild Wind o' the Sea,
That knowest the innermost being of me...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aXbbccaaa ddeeXdXXfXfX aXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,12,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001011101 11001011001 111110010001 111001011011 11001011101 11011011100 110011001101 11111001001 01011111011 111001111001 111101 111101 11011011101 10111111001 0100100001 00110111011 01011101001 0110010111010 111001001001 101110010110 10101111001 01010110010 101011111011 01001011011 10101101011 11001011101 11011011100 111101 111101 110001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 31
- 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; of, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words blow, ah are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sea is repeated).
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