This is an analysis of the poem Whose Shall The Welcome Be? that begins with:
The wave goes down, the wind goes down,
The gray tide glitters on the sea,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abbccbb abdaadb Abeffeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 01110101 01110001 10010100 00111100 11110111 110100 01110111 01011101 10011101 01000111 10111101 01010111 1001001 01110111 11111001 11010111 11111101 11011111 11110101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is 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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