This is an analysis of the poem Sitting On The Shore that begins with:
THE tide has ebbed away:
No more wild dashings 'gainst the adamant rocks, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaacc daadddd effeeaaghhggii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111001 11110101001 1100111111 010101 11010100111 11010101011 1111011101 011111 0101011111 1101110111 100011 1011010101 0101011110 1100011101 010101 1011010101 1111011101 100111 0111010011 01010100011 1011111110 111101 1111011101 0111010111 110011 0101111111 111110001001 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; we, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, the, a are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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