This is an analysis of the poem Sea-Ward, White Gleaming Thro' The Busy Scud (Fragment) that begins with:
Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud
With arching Wings, the sea-mew o'er my head... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 01010111011 1111111100 1001011101 1101011101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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