This is an analysis of the poem On The Sands that begins with:
ALL the air was tranced and the sea was stilled,
And we stood and dreamed of a world to be. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXababcdcdebeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010111 1111100100 1010111101 0010100 111101111 1010111111 10110001011 1010101 111110101 1111111101 1110110111 1100111 110111101 00100111111 1011100101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 687
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, you, that, never are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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