This is an analysis of the poem When My Lover Put The Sea Between Us that begins with:

When my lover put the sea between us
And went wandering in Italy ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXccXcadadaedeXeXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101011 111000100 11101100010 101 1011100110 111000101 11111010010 1001 1011111110 10110111 1001101110 111 1010101011 101010101 1111111011 101 1010101010 100110111 1111111010 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 645
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as is repeated.

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