This is an analysis of the poem On The Breakwater that begins with:
On the breakwater in the summer dark, a man and a girl are sitting,
She across his knee and they are looking face into face ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101100010101101110 10101111101001 1001100111010100110 0100110011011101 100111001100101 111011011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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