This is an analysis of the poem Out Of The Rolling Ocean, The Crowd that begins with:

OUT of the rolling ocean, the crowd, came a drop gently to me,
Whispering, I love you, before long I die,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbb XcdXXXXXdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1001010011011001 10011101111 1110011100111011 11111111111 1111110011 1111111111 0101001011 1111011011111111010 010110001001101 11111101010010010111 11110100101110101011 10 01010010111101010 10101 1001111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 403
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, to, we, for, us are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.

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

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