This is an analysis of the poem The Old Swimmer that begins with:
I OFTEN wander on the beach
Where once, so brown of limb, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbcB XdXd eXXX ddXdXebcB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 111101 01010101 10101 11110101 110111 11110111 10100 10010101 010101 01010101 10111 01010101 010100 11010101 11111 11110101 1100101 11110001 10001 010010101 010101 11110111 10100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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