This is an analysis of the poem Easton's Beach that begins with:
LAST night I saw a city by the sea,
Outlined in sparks of fire;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX abab bcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010101 1101010 1101110100 1111 1101010111 0111 1111111101 0101 0101000101 0100010 1111010101 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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- summary of Easton's Beach;
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- idea of the verse;
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