This is an analysis of the poem On The Sea that begins with:
I.
My God, break not the breakers of the sea,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcdbca XceeXacfbghiece XjiafbakcckeieellbmkkXncgcXdfcnea Xckkeaebbickccceace aaXmoeeXkekjcmXkkkkkpokemokoXekdh ackahiaXnXikbkcfp Xkkakcbibelmclokgjopcmekhk X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,15,33,19,33,17,26,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1111010001 101001101 0111110111 01001101001 10011001001011 111010101 111101011010 1011101111101 1 101101110101 111101010011 11101111111 1111011111010 0110010101100111 101001101 1111100111010 1101111 101001000101 111010010010 1010010101 111001010011 10110110100 11111001010001 1 011110111 0001111111110 01101101110111 1111010011100 0110101110111101001 1101111011 1101101110 1100101101 01101000101010 1101010100100101 10100110011 111010101 1110111 11001010101111011 11010111 110110101 111111111 1101001100111100 111111101 111011101000 1011111101010111011 100111111010 1110101101011 111101101001010 101110101 11110001111100 10001101011 11110110110 11011111 01100101110 11111011 1100101011 1 00111011 0100110001 111001000110 1110010001 1011110110110011 111001001011010 1111111111 11001001101001 1111001 10110110011001 111011101001 110101011011 101011110010010 01110110101 11010100101 110111110111 1001001100010010 110101101001 1 1010101011011 010100101100 101101110101 010011111110 11111110101110110 11111110 1110101001100 11100110 1101110111 10011001011 1111110100101 011010111 111010010110 0100110001001100 11101101010 101111010100 1101101101101 11010010111 11010100110 1010010111101 111101011100010110000101 11111001001 0010011111010011 101001111011 111011001011110 0101010111 110110001010100010 11111110 01001111111 101000101110 11101111101 11110100 1 1100100100101 10100111111 0101011101 111110100 011110110111 1010111101001 1 1110100101111101110 1100011 10110101010101 1100101111 1110101111011 010010101010 1101101 10010011 01101000101010010110100 1 11010101100 10101010 0010011001101 111010001001 11010010001001 0110011111011 011110101 1010010010001 1001001001 01110111001 11001 1111010101 111110101 1101010010 10100010101 0101010011110 110101101 1010011110011 1100111101 11010101010 110101101 01111110001001 01010011010 10101110101010010 0100111 010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 874
- Average number of words per stanza: 173
- Amount of lines: 154
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, and, no, you, to, for, my, your, that, sea, hand, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, but, as, you, he are repeated.
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