This is an analysis of the poem Glasha, Bride Of The Sea that begins with:

She knows the river, net and hook,
and hunts it deep as any....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcdXefgchfijkee fklcjXeXaaXef cmXmlgljlgXdXdknglX ecoeehaageeddoeicedoaXmpX XclhigigeeXjXegnhcleipppXeiageegagpX Xn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,13,19,25,36,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 1101110 110001001 111010 1101 1101 010101 11011100 110101 11010101 11010111 11010101 10101 110101 110111 01010101 110101 11010101 11010101 11010111 110101 110001110 110111 1 110111011 111 11011 01011111 1101 1101011011 1111 1101 1001111 101 10101010 001 110111110 111111 110101110 101011 110111010 111101 1101000101 11 11010 11111101 10101 11011011 111101 011100010 0111111 1010101 10111 11010101 10111 11011 1001 01110101 10101 11101111 010111 11011101 010101 11010101 01010101 11010011 10101 11111101 11110101 01010011 110111 11110111 110101 11110111 11011111 1100011 1010 101 110101010 10101 110001010 1110101 11111101 01110101 11010101 11010001 11011000 11011111 010100010 1010011 11111111 11110101 010110001 1101100101 01010 1101 1101010 110101 1111101 11110101 1111011 01110111 1001 1101011 001 11011101 11010101 1111011101 11011101 11110101 10110101 0111011 01011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 554
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 114
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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, to, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, and, the are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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