This is an analysis of the poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry that begins with:
FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face;
Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also face... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa abcded fbghijiXhd eklfmnXbdhcl Xgad mlmmmlom ibkdlXfX idbiXmabiXiamdfdmfcfajicmpqa Xj diblhm aa Xm Xfmbbjb jgbg npXgb nnXXombmcdX ldcqmglccabon ebXj bamb jdjndiX ejlmilXXkae mlmmbX ldfbdqjdjogbhkXjm bemmjknegildmmfdXnXdldnc ndXld eXXXdagapg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,10,12,4,8,8,28,2,6,2,2,7,4,5,11,13,4,4,7,11,6,17,24,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111101 10011111101111101 01 1011100100100011100 1101 1010101011011010 111100011101 11111010101110 11101101011101 010010001011111000 1 010101111101010100 10101011001 010000001110010 010111111011101 01001101010010 01010110110011011 0101101010101110 0100010011110010 1001001001011010 1 1001010011 1001010001011110 101000111 1001010111 100110010111011 1101 01001110110100110 010 00101101000011010 10010011 010110111101011 110111110001010110110 10101 1101110101110111100 1111111101011111 1110010100101111001 11110110100010101 11101 111111101110001 10111110 111110100101101 10101111 1110110011010011110 1 11011111101001 10010011010110 11101001011101101 10101111 110110101010010010 1 1110010001010010 1111010100101 11010100101010101 1001110 1101101101100 1101010101010100 101010101000101 110110111011 101101011101110 0101100101101011 01101010001010 10110 0111100100100110 10 0111101001100100 1 01011001000111 01011001101010 10011100 0101101011001100 10110101 10100100101111011 111010011001010 10100101000101010 111000001 1011001010011110 110010101100010 1 111100101111011 1101101001110101 111110 11101011010 011101101101 10011011111011110 00 0101111101101 1001011 100100111000011 110000101101011110 1 111100101111 111010010101100 10010 1110100011001011 0010110100111011 011111111110111101 1 1110100101010010 1110101001110 111111011011110111 100110 0010110101101 01110101110 01111101110101 1111101001100100 11110111 001101111000010 111111010010 111001101000 1010101110 111011101111 110110101100010 01010111001 0101010010010011 10 010101010100101 101 11110001011 11111101111100111 111010110 11111111110100100 11011111 110110011101110010 1101001 10110010111010 10 10111111010110 0111011011101111 1 11111111111 1011011 1111011111011101 10011 10101110000101101 1101111101 111110100 111111011011111110 11 0011011101 101101011010101100 0011111111001010 0010010011100101 101101010110101 01010110111101011010 11 111100111100110110000 11111010 110111111011011 01110101100110011 1001010 1001110111111011 0101111101101110 11101 100101101011100101 111011 1101001111110001 11011111 1110011000111010 1010111101011 0100010001 10101011101011 10000011 111010011110011 1011011011 101001110110110 11101010101 101011010100 1111010001110010 10 110110011110110 011110101010010 110110100111110 010 11100111011001111 101 11110111110101 101 1011011011101011 10 010110111011100110 10011 01110010001111101 1001010 111111111011010 01 01010111011001011 1111101001 011101001011110 11001110 11100101111111 10110 1011011001010111 11110101011111 11111101100100 10 010011111011111 110101010001001 0111011111011011100 010 110111111101 01010 0110111100111000 11101011110110 10101111110111 110101101111010110 1110101010001000 11100101001100101 01010001 11101111111001001 1001 10110111111100 1000 11101101001110110 01 11111111011111000 011 11011111100100110 11011010100 111110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 462
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 231
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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; face, to, you, of, others, and, me, i, as, just, look'd, on, saw, not, avails, too, in, my, body, it, or, same, few, what, could, with, your, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, others, will, just, look'd, saw, i, what, in, who, we, through are repeated.
The author used the same words i, it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines face, us, me, evil, not are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase others connects the lines.
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