This is an analysis of the poem Sea Song that begins with:

I will think no more of the sea! Of the big green waves And the hollowed
shore, Of the brown rock caves No more, no more Of the swell and the weed... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXbcabcdedceX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 10111001001111010 1001111111001101 10100110010110111110 010110111001101011 1011010111111001 101011111100111001 111101110110010 11001111011101100 010110110110011100 10110010101001001 110101101000101001 110110111111010 1001011110011001001 11011111001011001 0010010010110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1093
  • Average number of words per stanza: 214
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 72 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 14
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, no, more, she, her are repeated.

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  • summary of Sea Song;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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