This is an analysis of the poem With The Tide that begins with:

Somewhere I read, in an old book whose name
Is gone from me, I read that when the days ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdebXbdfbegcfaecaX hcfcbXg cbhedbebicjkXkijg bbgcXddggcgedae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,7,17,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111011111 0101111101 00111010101 11101110001 00111101 100100111111 10011111010 0100011111 1111100101 0111111101 1100010111 0100111101 0011100111 1101110101 1011001101 110011101011 1101011111 1111110001 11110101011 01010010111 1101011101 0101011101 1111010111 1101100101 1001110001 0100111111 1001011011 1100101010111 0101101101 11011011010 1111111111 10111101110 0011100101 1111011011 1111111111 1100110111 1100111101 1111010111 11001010111 1101110100 011100100111 11111000001 1011011101 1011011 1111110011 0100010111 111111 1111110100 1001011011 11111011110 11110100101 1110110110 110011010001 11110101001 0111011101 1101001101 0011010011 1101011100 1001111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 679
  • Average number of words per stanza: 126
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, you, ships are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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