This is an analysis of the poem The Idea Of Order At Key West that begins with:

She sang beyond the genius of the sea.
The water never formed to mind or voice,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdaed aeeeeee cacffc agaeheeiceiXaeceeaXadXe febhhagiXdaegg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,6,23,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010001 0101010111 10101010100 01011101010 1101110001 1111111101 01000100010 0111011111 01110011001 1001111111 1111110111 0101010101 0101010101 1011110111 11101000111 0101010101 11001111101 11000110111 0101011111 1111010111 00110011001 11110101101 00110010101 11001010101 1101011011 0101010101 0100010011 1101101111 1101011101 010010010101 01001001111 110101001000 0111 010111 0110010100 11000100101 110101000001 0111111101 1101010101 110111101011 1110010101 1111100110 0101111101 0101011011 1101010111 0101110101 01001011101 10101010001 10011100101 10010111001 0101000101 111110101 0101010101 1001010101 100111100 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; what, she, we, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, she are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines knew is repeated).

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  • summary of The Idea Of Order At Key West;
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