This is an analysis of the poem Brightness Breaches And The Beak that begins with:

Bright young thing: Thou on the beaches
Life is gay and pleasure laden... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcdee fgfghXhgdd ffXfggggee afXXgdgdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010 10111010 10101100 10001110 10101010 1011101 10101010 1011101 11101010 10111111 11110110 10101010 101000010 10111010 11111010 10101010 10101010 110000010 10111011 10101011 11111010 10101010 1001010010 10111110 11101110 10110110 110111010 100001010 1100101 1110100 11101010 10101010 11101100 0010101 10100010 1011111 10111110 1011101 1011101 1010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; there's is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there's, e'en, your are repeated.

    The author used the same word bright at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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