This is an analysis of the poem The Ocean To Cynthia that begins with:
But stay, my thoughts, make end, give fortune way ;
Harsh is the voice of woe and sorrow's sound ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcd ecec cfcf dbdb gegedcdc ahaX ijij jdjd fhfh ajajXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 1001011101 0111111101 1101110101 011100001001 0101010101 0111010101 1101110101 1101011001 1101011101 0111010101 100101111 0001110101 110110101 1011110101 11011011101 1111111101 1111111101 11011111110 10110110110101 1011011111 11110110011 1111011101 0111110001 0111111101 0101010111 11111101101 1111111001 1101110101 11110110001 1111011111 11111111010 0101011101 01110100010 1101110111 1111111111 11001111111 0111111101 0101110101 1101110101 1111010111 1101011111 1101011101 0111011101 1101110101 1010110100 0111000101 10011100111 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, she, thy, my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase eyes connects the lines.
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