This is an analysis of the poem The Surges Gushed And Sounded that begins with:
The surges gushed and sounded,
The blue was the blue of June,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb Xcac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 0110101 110101001 100101 0101110 011111 10110101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the 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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