This is an analysis of the poem Sea Surface Full Of Clouds that begins with:
In that November off Tehuantepec,
The slopping of the sea grew still one night...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAb acc def fgg gch edh X XAb acc dfc fii ffe dXe X XAb acc ffi cfX fbh Xfh X Xjb acc gfc Xac cXe cfe d Xdb acc XjX adX XehXdhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011000 0100011111 1001010101 111101010 1101010001 1100000101 0101110101 1101010101 1001010101 1101011001 0101010101 1011111011 01110010101 1111100101 100100100101 01001010101 1110010101 11010101001 1 0101011000 0100011111 1101010101 111101110 1101010111 1101010101 01010100101 1110010001 11010101001 11010100001 0101010101 1011011111 0111010101 1100010101 0111111101 01011000101 1001000101 0101010001 1 0101011000 0100011111 1011010101 1111010010 1101010101 01010101001 0101011111 1101010011 0100010101 00101010111 0101000101 1101101110 1101001101 0101110101 0101010101 0101010101 1100100001 10010001001 1 0101011000 0111000111 0101010101 111101010 1101001101 0101000101 0101001100 1110010001 1101000101 1111010101 0011000101 1011110101 01001111001 1101110100 1111000101 0101100101 10100010101 1101010101 1 0101011000 11010001 0111011000101 011100110 1101010101 1001000101 0100100100 110101011 1001011100 101110100101 11010101001 1010110100 0101110001 0101000101 01110100101 0101000101 1101111001 1110000101
- Amount of stanzas: 34
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mon, in, and, of, blue, like are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, like, of are repeated.
The author used the same word of at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word blue at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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