This is an analysis of the poem A Hymn Of The Sea that begins with:
The sea is mighty, but a mightier sways
His restless billows. Thou, whose hands have scooped... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdaeXcafgcXaaXdehafbe dieXXhdaddXfXdag ajjdgijkhXbkeaidfdaakfjajh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,16,26,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010101001 0101011111 0101110111 11000101001 1100101001001 0011011111 1011011111 1101010011 1101010101 1011110101 10010100101 1100010111 1001011100 0110010001 1001111101 0011011101 0101010101 1001010101 110011111001 0011001101 1100010001 1100111001 0101011101 1111110111 0111010001 1111010111 110111100 11010100101 1101011101 0101011011 1111010101 1111010001 1101010001 10110001001 1101011101 01000101110 1111110101 1101010111 0100010101 1101010101 0111000011 1001010101 1011011001 0011011101 0011000101 1101010101 1101111011 0101110101 0101010101 1101010111 0101000111 0111000101 01010111010 1101010111 0111011011 01010101101 0111010101 0111110111 100101110010 1100010111 1101010100 01010001101 1101010101 11010010101 010010001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 967
- Average number of words per stanza: 172
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; his, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
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- summary of A Hymn Of The Sea;
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- idea of the verse;
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