This is an analysis of the poem I Am Like One That For Long Days Had Sate that begins with:
I AM like one that for long days had sate,
With seaward eyes set keen against the gale,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacaaXdcedce fggfdccdhhadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111111 0101110101 11110010111 0101111111 1111011101 1101100111 1101110101 11011101010 1101111111 1111111101 01001011101 0111010101 1111111111 1101011101 1111110111 1111010011 1101010111 1001110101 0111010111 1001010011 1011110111 1101011111 1101011101 1111110101 1111010011 1101110111 0111111111 0111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for, has are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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