This is an analysis of the poem In Sark that begins with:

Abreast and ahead of the sea is a crag's front cloven asunder
With strong sea-breach and with wasting of winds whence terror is... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXaB bXbXabbaB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 01101001001110010 01111010011100 1 10110100100101101 10 01101 1010010101110111 11001101101101100 11110100100101 11101110011010110 0100100100110111 0101100100110111 10 01101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • 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.

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