This is an analysis of the poem The Sea And The Hills that begins with:
Who hath desired the Sea? -- the sight of salt water unbounded --
The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbcC ccXddcC cXeeecC ddfffXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101001010110010 011011011010010110 011001011110010110 111010011010110110 01011001011011110 01111011 1111011111011001011 11010010011010010 010010011011011010 010010010110100100 010011011010110010 01011001011011110 01111011 1111011111011001011 1101001010011010 001010011010111100 0010111011010111010 110111001011010010 01101011011010110 01111111 1111011111011001011 1101001010010010 1100011010111011110 11011101111010111 111010011010101111 010011011011110011 01101010 1111011111011001011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 478
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, sea, his, no, as, it, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, his, inland are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, him are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word hills at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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