This is an analysis of the poem Her Thoughts And His that begins with:

The gray of the sea, and the gray of the sky,
A glimpse of the moon like a half-closed eye....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc ddee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01001101001 0100110111 01101101101 0101111101 1100100101 10111101001 111001101001 11101100101 11111111111 1011101101 100011101 11011101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, i are repeated.

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

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