This is an analysis of the poem Low Tide On Grand Pré that begins with:
The sun goes down, and over all
These barren reaches by the tide... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcdcdd eXeXX efeff gdgdd hghgg fifii bjbjj gggggXbdbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01111101 11010101 11000101 11111101 01010001 11111111 11010001 11001100 01010101 11100001 01011011 1001010 11001001 11010110 1101110 10011101 11010011 11010101 10010111 11010111 01010111 01011111 11010101 11011001 11110101 11010111 11010101 11110111 11110110 11011101 11110011 100111001 11111101 01111100 01001101 11111111 01011001 01010111 11111011 11010101 110101101 11110001 10010101 01011111 10110101 01110101 11011101 01110101 01110111 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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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