This is an analysis of the poem Henry James At The Pacific that begins with:

-- Coronado Beach, California, March, 1905
In a hotel room by the sea, the Master...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ababcdcdXceceff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101101011 00011101010 11010100111 111010100010 1001010101 11111100100 0111000111 110101001101 1001010001 1111001110 10 11110101001 10110110110 1111100101 01011101110 10010100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 333
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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