This is an analysis of the poem I: In A Great House By The Sea I Sat that begins with:

In a great house by the wide Sea I sat,
And down slow fleets and waves that never cease... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXccacac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0011101111 1111111101 1100110111 11011101001 0101010101 1101010101 0101110101 1101011001 01000111101 1111110101 0101011011 1101011001 01010101001 100101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 608
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, to, of are repeated.

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