This is an analysis of the poem The Sea that begins with:
There are certain things -a spider, a ghost,
The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb abab dbdb ebeb aXab eXeb dbdb abab abab fbfb gbgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110101001 01111101011 11110111101 0011101 111101001 1001101000 0100100111 110101 10110111 1011101101 011101111 110101 1101001001 1010111 110100101 101101 10101101 110101001 111111001 111101 00101101101 011101111 101111010001 111101 1011111001 10010101 111010101 010101 011100111 0010101011 1010100101 111101 1001100111 10110100111 1010101011 1110101 111111101 1011101 0010001101 1100101 1110111011 010111001 11001011001 1100101 110111101 1110111101 111001001001 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Sea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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