This is an analysis of the poem Night On The Shore that begins with:
Starless and cold is the night:
The sea is foaming,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcbXdddXeXdfdgh ieXddhhaaba gdjjcffjaklkdaddka dakfidedglladeebXdeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,11,18,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001 01010 1100111010 10101001 010100100 101010010010 100100010 1010110 10010010010 01010011 0011111101011 0011010010 1101 110011000100 10110001 0111111 101 1101011 100111 0101001 10110111 111 1010101 11010011 1101101001 10110101 11011011000 00100101 101101101 1100100101 010010 010010010 11101 1100010 00110 110101001010 11010 1111001 1000101 01101 110100110 11111 001101 11010101 1111 0101 100100101 11000101001 100011 010111001 11010101 1101 11111111 111011 011101001 11001001 10101001 10001 010101 11010001 10011111 01010100 11111101 110100101 100100101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 509
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines daughter, men are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase stories connects the lines.
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