This is an analysis of the poem Or From That Sea Of Time that begins with:

OR, from that Sea of Time,
Spray, blown by the wind--a double winrow-drift of weeds and shells;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcXXaXXXXXcXa dcadbaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101 111010101010111 110111001011101110 101100100101 10110111100010111 10111010001110100 10 10010101101001100 10 1101110111000 100000101111001 111110011111111 111110011111 1 1101001 1001001001 1011001010010 1001011101101 11110101111001 100101101111 1 10100101001011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 564
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; of, life, and are repeated.

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