This is an analysis of the poem Prelude To 'Poems Of The Sea' that begins with:
We are the deep waves
Where the eyes plunge in vain; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAAc defdX abaag dacda dcdeg fhiab djeXi ddaaa acaab daaaX hXaid aXkjaXABAAk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 101101 110111 1010101 11011 011101 01011 10111010 110101 100100110 1101 1001001 101101 1010101 10101 0011111 01000010 11000101 11011 1101110 1110011 1001110 111010 10010101 0100101 00110110010 1101 01001000010 10101 0101110 11101 0001001 011010101 01111 0101110 11011 101101 100101001 101011110 10101011 1111110 1111101 11110100 10100111 101111 1010011 010010110 011111 101101 111111 111101 111001 0110101 10100111 1010111 11010100011 110100 1100110 110011 010010 11011 101101 110111 1010101 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; waves, we, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, life are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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