This is an analysis of the poem On A Canaaite Rock At The Dead Sea that begins with:

The sea opens no door before me...
I say my poem ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abCCAADaeafghiicjaXajkleafmbhfkJNKoapXiekeipnXikifhnilcelkkhegeikkkcmickcaeaqnfnacqahahabJNkfkXeahaecjenkcibikic kkbaeinjeXiblkhkqkknkqnninbopbhkefXppeXodikafkheekoXkeXoofqnlbhikbCCAADajnK
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 112,75,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011011011 11110 001101110 101010 111111001 011011011 1101110101 010011 101011100 1110011 11001101 01001110 11001001 0110011 11101001011 001010 011010 11101 111110111 101111 101101110100100 01001011 1011010 100101 10111001011 111101010 110111011 11101111 111101 1010111101 1101110 101011100 110011001 1111011 111101011 11101001001 1111110101 00101101010 001101001 01101101111 11010111 00100110 01100101 01011101 101001011 101101010 10110111 1011111001 10001110 100010 101101 00101011 0010000010100 1111010110 0111011010 001011001111 00010111111 01100110110 011101110 011111111 1100101010 11011101 01111010 011101001 01101 10101101 1010011110 01010111010 10101111 0101100101 01110100010 011101 011010110 1101001 010101011 110110011 11111101 0110101 0101010 11111010100 01000101001 11111010 0010001011 00111111001 101111111001 011111111 101001101 00111011011 0111111011011 101011100 110011001 11111011 1010101110 1111101011 110011011 011001 11000101101 00101001010 101101111 10100101010 101111010 001001110 1111011110 100111101 010011101011 00110010 1101011010 11110110 11100110 0101101 11110011 00100010 010011001 011110101 0100101011 0110101 10101101 110010110 00100101 10111110110 001011100010 1101010111 100110100 11000100101 0100010010101 101100101 01111101010 100100100011010 100010110011 11011001010 001011011 10010011 101011 0111101 0100101001 010110101101 110010101010 101010111011 1010111010011 10100100111 111010111 11110101001 1111101101 111010110111 111100110111 01010111101 11101011010101 1001010111111 101011111011 1000111111 11100100111 110111101 101111 1101011011 010101101 11001101101 101101101111 101101011 10111101101 111101011111 01110001 1010011 111101111101 110101111 100110011 11110110 11110101010 111101101100101 11010101010101 0010101010 10010101 1001100010 100111111 01010110111 01000110010 001111000101 111110110 1101111110 001101110 101010 111111001 011011011 1101110101 0010011 1101011100 110011001 1111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3986
  • Average number of words per stanza: 683
  • Amount of lines: 187
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; me, of, my, from, to, i, take, our, this, you, sea, its, have, for, that, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, no, to, of, and, from, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines father, me are repeated).

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