This is an analysis of the poem Up Against the Sea that begins with:
At the foot of the cliff, the sea is taking back
what it left there long ago, and the landowners...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabca aabadadc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101001010101 101110110110 1101010111 0111111100 01101011011 011010111010 01110100110 11110101100 11010110111 1111010110 01011010100 1001101100 1010010110010 001111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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