This is an analysis of the poem The Mary (A Sea-Side Sketch) that begins with:
Lov'st thou not, Alice, with the early tide
To see the hardy Fisher hoist his mast, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcc cdcdcdee afafafgg fdfdfdhh agagagii bbbbbbaa Xajajakk lililibb mememell aiaiaiXl hfhfhfkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111000101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 0100011101 0101010001 1011001111 1101011011 0101010101 1101010111 1001010101 1011011001 11011101001 0111010101 1001010101 0111110101 1110111101 1111110101 1001000111 0101011101 1101010001 1101001101 0101100101 11110111001 1111011101 0101010101 0101011101 1011010101 1011010101 0100011111 1101110101 0101010111 0111010101 0101000111 0101011111 0101010101 1101011101 01001010111 1000111101 1101010001 1110110101 1101000111 1111010101 0011010111 0111000101 1101010111 0101110101 1111110111 1101011011 1001111111 1101010001 1101010101 1011011101 1101011101 11010011110 11101101110 11010100101 11010101001 0101010101 1111110101 1101010101 1011010100 1011011111 0101010001 1111110101 1101110101 1101011101 0100111101 1011011101 1001011101 1101010001 1001001101 1111010111 0101010101 1101110101 1111010101 0101110101 01110101101 11011100101 0101000111 1011010001 1111000101 1001110101 1001000101 1101011101 1111010001 11011111110 11010110010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 88
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, his, no are repeated.
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