This is an analysis of the poem The Eye that begins with:
The Atlantic is a stormy moat; and the Mediterranean,
The blue pool in the old garden,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdbXXbaXcedXeXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100010110100100 01100110 11110011101 011111001110010 111111000100 10101110011 110101100100 11001010010101010 1 0010110111 10010110011010 1011010111 0011111010100010 10 01011010 11010110010 01011100011011110 1 00010100 1001110100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 916
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, of, this are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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