This is an analysis of the poem Noonday By The Seaside that begins with:
The sea has left the strand—
In their deep sapphire cup... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cdcd eefggf ffXf aaggXhihgX gjggjddbbgghiihgfggf kcckaak hhgXllbbmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,4,10,20,7,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011101 0111001 011101 10111 011101 01110101001 110101 0111111101 010111110010 01010011010 1100110011 010101 010101 1011011111 110101 100011 111101010 010111 1010010101 111101 1101001111 0101 11110100 10011 010101 0100101 11101110101 1111010100 0011010111 1011110101 1100010111 1101111101 1001110011 11111111 101101 1101010101 1001000101 01011011001 0101010011 1101001 110101 100101 101101 10110000101 1100001 0101011101 00110101001 0101010111 0111110111 1101011111 0101010011 110101 0011010111 1001011101 1010110101 111010101 01011011111 1111010111 0011010110 1101110111 01110011111 01010011111 01001010011 1101010101 111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
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