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

ENDLESSLY fell her chestnut flowers,
Faint snow throughout the honeyed dark; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbab cdeecd XXffXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101110 110101001 01010101 11010011 1101101010 111100101 001101001 01011101 11111111 01110101 11010101 110010111 01110100 01110101 01110101 010010101 01111101 110101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; her is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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