This is an analysis of the poem By The Seaside : Twilight that begins with:
The twilight is sad and cloudy,
The wind blows wild and free,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba Xcdc dbXb XeXe fgXg fhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101110 011111 1101011 1011001 10010010 110101 101011010 110001 110010010 101101 01000010 011101 10101011 010011 1100010 1101101 11101010 1011111 1111010100 101101 11101010 1011111 1111010010 1010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, now, and are repeated.
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