This is an analysis of the poem Lines Written By The Seaside (Ii) that begins with:
If I believed in death, how sweet a bed
For such a blessed slumber could I find,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXabbcdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011101 110110111 01011100100 0111111101 1011111011 1101011101 1111011101 0101001101 10110011111 1101111101 0101110101 0111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 519
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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