This is an analysis of the poem Lines. that begins with:
To the smooth beach the silver sea
Comes rippling in a thousand smiles,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcdXeaeFgfgFhfhXiXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 00110101 110000101 110111000 01011101 01110101 010111001 11110111 010010111 010011100 10010101 010011111 01011111 11111111 11010101 010010111 11110101 11111111 01011111 11000101 01111101 11111101 11110111 101101000 111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 858
- Average number of words per stanza: 159
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and is repeated.
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