This is an analysis of the poem The Sandpiper that begins with:
Across the lonely beach we flit,
One little sandpiper and I, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBababaB cbcbdbdB ebefebeb afabXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 11010011 11110111 01011111 01111110 01110111 11110111 11010011 01110101 11110101 11010101 11011101 11111111 110110101 11110101 11010011 11111101 100011101 11111101 110100100 11110101 11100101 11111111 01010011 11111001 101111000 111100111 01110111 11111111 01010101 11111101 11010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word i at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of The Sandpiper;
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