This is an analysis of the poem From The Upland To The Sea that begins with:

Shall we wake one morn of spring,
Glad at heart of everything,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddeecfgghhiiiiiXjjkkffeegglliikkggjjggeeXXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11111001 1110101 11000101 1011111 10110101 1011111 10010101 1110101 1111111 0111101 1010111 1011101 1010110 1011101 1010101 1011101 1011001 1110001 1111101 0110111 00111001 1111101 1110111 100110110 0110111 1011111 1110111 1110111 1110111 1010101 1111101 10100011 1101101 0010101 1111111 1010111 1111111 0010111 1011111 10011101 1111101 1111111 1011111 1010111 100101 1110101 1010001 1110111 1010110 0010101 1111111 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1626
  • Average number of words per stanza: 323
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • 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; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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