This is an analysis of the poem On The Seas And Far Away that begins with:
HOW can my poor heart be glad,
When absent from my sailor lad;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccDd dDDd eeffddDDDDDD gghhhhDDDDDD aaeeiiDDDDDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 11001101 1110101 11010101 1110111 1110011 1011111 1011101 101011101 11011101 1011111 11011101 1010111 11010111 1000101 11010101 1011101 1011101 1101111 1111101 1011101 11011101 1101111 1111101 10101110 110101010 1010101 11010101 100001001 1010101 1111111 1011101 1011101 11011101 1111111 1011101 1110101 11110101 1010101 11010101 11101001 1110101 0111101 1111101 1011101 11011101 0111101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my, away, far are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words bullets, on are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines away is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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