This is an analysis of the poem At The Seaside that begins with:
O SOLITARY shining sea
That ripples in the sun, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abcb deXe bada fXbc bgXg eaea ecXc dXcX acXc XfcfXafef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110001 11110101 1010111 11011101 100111 11010101 110101 11110111 010101 11011000 111101 11011101 1101101 110011101 110101 11011100 1101110 11110101 000101 11100111 110111 10010111 110101 10000111 110111 111100111 010111 01110111 110101 10111101 010101 11111111 011110 01110111 010001 11010101 011111 11011101 010101 11111111 110101 01001111 010011 01010101 010111 11010100 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, as are repeated.
The author used the same words o, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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