This is an analysis of the poem A Distance From The Sea that begins with:
To Ernest Brace
"And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXcX defgdcXfebhbiegjbXXkaeeb eXhbebhXcjfeabeebflaeaXbebXiim mlX befabkdXib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,24,30,3,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101 1010101011011011 0101111010101010 11111101010101 1010101011 1111110010 11010111 0011010101 011101000111 01010100101110 101001110101 100101011101 01011101001 100111010100111 1101010101 1111111101 0101010111 01000100101001010 10110100110110 1111001111 010010010100 00100111101010 1010100101101 110101001000111 1111111110 11000111010111 0111011111 10010001110 101001110111010010001 1000100111011 1100100110000 11011011111 0101011100000010100 01000100110011 110001110101 1010011 11011101110 11101011101 1011000101 1101010111 11011111110101 1001011011 110101111101 0101101111 111101111101 010010111010 10101110101 110101101010001 01110001111101 111101111001 11110100010100 1101010011110001 110101010 001010101010101 0101000101010 0101010100 010001000101 1100110111101 1101111101 011100101101 11110110010001 1111001111010 1 110111111101 111101111101 110111000100011010 1000011101 111101110111110 10 011101000010100 1011101110111 110101010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 595
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, what, of, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of A Distance From The Sea;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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