This is an analysis of the poem How The Women Went From Dover that begins with:

THE tossing spray of Cocheco's fall
Hardened to ice on its rocky wall,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb eeff gghh iieX XajX iikk llee ddbb ggdd hhee lldX ffXk ddXX iiff bbkk ccee mmkk kkkk iikk ddbX kkkk kkbb jjee ggnn eemm aajjXddkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101001 100110101 1110100111 110110111 100110111 1101001001 011101101 110100101 1110111 10010101 101110101 11101011 101100101 1101111111 011110101 110110101 111101011 110100101 1110111101 100110101 1010010111 11100111 1010111101 010110101 110110101 0101111000 11011001001 110101100 1000101111 110101111 101111101 0010111101 0100101001 110010101 10110100101 110100111 110101101 0110101001 1010101111 110110001001 011100101 010100101 00110111001 010100101 110100111 111100111 11111001011 110010101 010110111 10100101001 1100101101 1110010111 1010100111 0010100111 1110111 010100101 111101111 111111111 1010101101 1111101111 111100101 111101001 111111111 110011111 1010101001 0100100111 110111001 111101101 0100111101 0100100101 110110111 10111111 110101111 0111101101 010100101 101101111 111110111 11110111 010111001 1100100101 11010101 011111001101 111101101 110101011 111111101 110001111 1100011101 1101001001 0100100101 010101101 101010101 010100101 111100101 010110101 101100111 0010010100 010111101 11011111 110100111 010101111 010101101 110101111 1100100101 110101111 1101101101 1010011101 11110101 010100111 0010010111 1110100101 11011011001 100101101 111100111 0011101111 1100101101 110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 116
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, her, ', his, he, of are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words he, the 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 ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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