This is an analysis of the poem On The Seashore that begins with:

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous. On the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110101101 010010100101101010010010110101010101110 1111001111010101011111110010101110111101101 11110111110111101111010111101010110001111110101111011 011010101110100111101110010001010101011001010011010111010011 1011010110110100101111001010100111011011010100110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 199
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 194 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 33
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and, on, their, with, not, children, of, know, how, to, seashore, worlds are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.

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