This is an analysis of the poem We Lying By Seasand that begins with:
We lying by seasand, watching yellow
And the grave sea, mock who deride...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbbdedebXXbccXdfdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101010 10111101 110011010 1101100101 1001010111 0101101001 11111111 101101 0101000101 10010101110 101101101 11110010 001101 0100101001 10011110 1001010110 0011111 11010111 1101110101 0100011111 1101110 11111010 110100101010 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 889
- Average number of words per stanza: 164
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; grave, and are repeated.
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