This is an analysis of the poem Seaward that begins with:
Darling, you think it's love, it's just a midnight journey.
Best are the dales and rivers removed by force, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaababcacacdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010101110 11011100111 1001010101010100 10100110000101 10011001110 100011010101 10111011010 101110110101 110111011010 11110110101 111110001101110 100110100101 1001010010010010 11010111001 110101001110 110101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 866
- Average number of words per stanza: 144
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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