This is an analysis of the poem Sunrise On The Coast that begins with:
Grey dawn on the sand-hills -- the night wind has drifted
All night from the rollers a scent of the sea; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eXeX cbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011011110 11001001001 0010110010110 101001011011 110010010110 01111001001 111011010010 11111001101 010110110011 01111001001 110010010010 10100110101010 111011010110 01101111101 110110110010 01111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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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