This is an analysis of the poem What The Sea Says To The Shore: Flood-Tide that begins with:
O Sweet!
I kiss thy feet.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbcdeedfgfgaag ahhahhgieeXgi eebbbcggijijaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,13,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 1111 000101 110101 110101 1000 11110101 1100111 110111 010010110 111 01000101 101111 1111 11 11 1100010101 111101001 10101 1101 11111101 110001 11111101 1111 11011111 11 01 1111010 1010101 1111101 111111 10101 00101111101 111101 010111110 111100 11111010 11111110 10110111 010001010 01010111 11111111 1111110111 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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