This is an analysis of the poem The Stars Go Over The Lonely Ocean that begins with:
Unhappy about some far off things
That are not my affair, wandering...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdc eacXXdc cXdaXac XcaeXdc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011111 111101100 0101110110 110010 0111001010 101111 10001111010 01101010111 1111011010 0110010110 11011 101110010100 011101 1001111010 11001111 110010101 101100101 111100 101110010100 10110011 10011111010 101001110100 101111010 101101010 101011 111011010000 1010111 1001111010 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; talk is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word mountain at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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