This is an analysis of the poem The Seas Of England that begins with:

The seas of England are our old delight:
Let the loud billow of the shingly shore...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABBA XccX deed feefXABBA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101011101 1011000101 1101010101 0111110101 0111001101 1001010111 1001001111 1001100100 1011000111 10010100101 1101110101 11001011101 11110100111 1011110100 1101000111 1011001101 0101011101 1011000101 1101010101 0111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; their is repeated.

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

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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