This is an analysis of the poem 1918 that begins with:
Stars were racing; waves were washing headlands.
Salt went blind, and tears were slowly drying....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX XaXa XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,8,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101010 1111101010 1000111010 10111000010 1010110100 1110101110 0111100010 0010101110 1100101010 10101010110 1010110110 1011111010 1111111 1111111 11111 111111 1111111 111111 1111 1111111 111111 1111111 1111111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 478
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 114 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of 1918;
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