This is an analysis of the poem After The Storm that begins with:
O the calling of the waves on the pebbled beach below,
And the seagull sweeping o'er the waters grey!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdcd dddd cece fafaXdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10100011010101 101110100101 10101011010101 10100110101 0101011010101 101001110101 101010010010101 1111010101 01010111010111 10110010101 11101010010101 10101010101 11101011010101 10111110101 10101111010101 10101011101 110111010101 1101010111 1101010010101 0111010111 10111011010111 10101010101 1111110010101 10100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, where are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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