This is an analysis of the poem A Rustic Seat Near The Sea that begins with:

To him, who, many a night upon the main,
At mid-watch, from the bounding vessel's side,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaccXXXXbbddeeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01110010101 1110010101 10011000101 1101011101 1101011111 1111110101 11001110011 01111101010 11110001100 1111011100 10011100101 1100110101 1101010111 1101001111 0111011111 0101110111 1100010101 1101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 805
  • Average number of words per stanza: 141
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • 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.

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