This is an analysis of the poem The Deep-Sea Cables that begins with:
The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar --
Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cdcd eXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010111111001 1001001011011111 1011110010010001 10111010110110101 10010011101101 1101011011011 101011100011 101010011110111 1110001011111101 10100101001001 111011001001001 10111011001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (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; of, and are repeated.
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