This is an analysis of the poem Low-Tide that begins with:
These wet rocks where the tide has been,
Barnacled white and weeded brown...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcXcdXdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110 10011101 11001001001 11110111 010110101 11100101 1101101010 01000111 11011101 010101110 110100111 111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 464
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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.
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