This is an analysis of the poem Mid Atlantic that begins with:
If this were all!--A dream of dread
Ran through me; I watched the waves that fled... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbdedeaaddaaa aaaXffgagccaddheedddh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00010101 111110111 11010101 01010101 01010101 01000101 010101 0001 01010101 11110111 11000101 11010101 11010101 11000101 10010101 11011101 10010001 01011101 01010101 11110101 101001100 11111101 11010001 11010101 010001 01011111 11010101 010100001 011111 11010101 11011101 1101010 11111100 010111101 11110101 11010101 111100001 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 642
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, i, though are repeated.
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