This is an analysis of the poem A Love By The Sea that begins with:
Out of the starless night that covers me,
(O tribulation of the wind that rolls!)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabc abcabcXabcabc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001011101 1101000111 1101010101 0100000101 1101010011 1100010011 00010110101 1101000111 0111010001 0111010101 0101111101 1101110111 1001111101 1100000111 1111010001 1001010101 1001111111 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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; of, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word farewell at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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