This is an analysis of the poem The Voices Of The Ocean that begins with:
All the night the voices of ocean around my sleep
Their murmuring undulation sleepless kept.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcdc effeffffff dbbdeggege hddhebbebe ijjidffdfd dddXbkkbkb ellXhffhfh ffffmdjmjm iggibbbbbb noonpeeXep
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010100100111 11001000101 100111 110101 101010010101 1111011101 11110010011 1100100100111 010100101001 111111 0111111100111 0101010101 1100101 11011101101 01010100111 110101000101 01001010101 0101010101 1101010010011 1010011 110010101001 01010100111 1110101 1100111010101 1111011111 1001011100101 01011101001 0111010111 101011101101 00101001 100100010111101 1010010101101 1011111 01011100101 11001010101 1101000101 10100111001 10100101101 0101010010101 1111111 100101111010 10011011101 10101 101010101010 10111010101 0110001010101 010101100111 1111011101 110101010111 0101101 1001010110101 01001111101 01111101 10001001111100 1101010101011 0110010001101 110101010101 11111000101001 1001010101 1011101 101001111101 01000110101 0010101 1111010110 1011010111111 0101010101011 1000001011101 010111110011 1111011101001 1010101 100101010101 1101001010111 110101 0101111110101 101101001101 111101010101 1010010110111 111001110111 11111011110001 111111 11110100001010 101010111001 11111 1111011111010 0111010101101 011101001001 0101010010101 010101110101 011101110001 010101 110110111 0101010101 110101 11010110101 111111111101 1011010010111 01111011001 10111011110 11101111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 437
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and, i, that, you, for, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, and, to are repeated.
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