This is an analysis of the poem The Coastwise Lights that begins with:
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees;
Our loins are battered 'neath us by the swinging, smoking seas.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX aabb ccaa bbdd eeee XXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101010111 11110111010101 01111101010111 01010101010101 1010101010100101 101010101010111 11010111110101 101110111110111 11010111011101 01110111010101 01110101110101 01000111010101 11010111110101 11010111010111 01111101110001 01110111010001 11100100010001 11100100110001 110011001111101 01010101110101 11111100011111 11100100010011 111101001110101 01010111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, our, of, from, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, through, we, go are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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