This is an analysis of the poem The Sea Of Ecstasy Has Ebbed And Gone, Dear Friend that begins with:
The sea of ecstasy has ebbed and gone, dear friend
The ocean of sorrow floods and overwhelms....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcAB XAB ddAB ecAB deXcAB XabAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,4,4,6,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101001101111 01001011101 111010111110101 0101001101111 01001011101 11111110011110101 0101001101111 01001011101 110111100010101 110010101101 0101001101111 01001011101 11111111101010111 111010100101011101011 0101001101111 01001011101 1101100101 11111000100111 101001111001100 1010110 0101001101111 01001011101 101011110101110100101 11111101001 1011101010110 0101001101111 01001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, has, he, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word overwhelms at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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