This is an analysis of the poem Corsons Inlet that begins with:

I went for a walk over the dunes again this morning
to the sea, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXXc d bcef f gXgfgf ahaicgejehchaf kgfggglg gckgg cmX faXg indfjm nidefjgfoph elgdfco cggfcelfdqhXXkcXeq molqcgnqhikX ceegXlp eff geh Xlpibafepi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,4,1,6,14,8,5,3,4,6,11,7,18,12,7,3,3,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11101100101010 001 11101 01 1001010 101 010111 011010010011011 100101 11101 11001 0100101 011010110101 0010000 111101 01 0001101010111 01 1011110010 10001000100 10 101100100011 111 0110 10010 1010101 111010 100100111010010 0010110001001 110100110010101 110101011010010 01001 01011111111000 11 11101 01001001000101 01 0100101 1110111100101 010001 111101010101100 1011100101001 01111 111 1 1010101 101011010011 011 111100101001 0010 1011101011010 11 1010011010101 0100111111 10101001 110101100011 01001100101 110111 011111011111 1101001001 01 110001 101100100100001 111000101 0110111101 11 0100010110010101 11010100111010 10100011101 1011001010 10010101101 1100001100100111 010101 011110 1010110010 1001 0101110011 1110011 1100110 10011 1101 010101010 1010010011001000 1101 11010101 1010 1111110011 1 10100 001010111 1 0101000110101000 0100010 0100100010 0010110101 110101010110001 11 100010 00100101010 10101111 0101010100111 111001010011010 1010100010 1111 110 100 101100111010101 101101101001011 01001 010 11111010100 1101 1001100100 101101100101 11 11010110000100011 100110101110100 00110111010 0101011 1110101001010 110110100 10101010101 101 010001001010010100 110100101 1011111010100010 1110110010 10110110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 146
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, cheet, in, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, could, scope, that are repeated.

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