This is an analysis of the poem A Story Of The Sea-Shore that begins with:

TO THEM THAT MOURN
Let your tears flow; let your sad sighs have scope;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bb c a defdgahXieijhghcagdcehgk kceedljcmanmekgokcjha dapecacg gihhgaekgqeaeeegaadihigcjicjfkgahhbdmaXcicgrifh eXsiejcdhbi cihhpXcpsleehaekXo ahagc hjsk f hjakkleejgthahhkjieeaaekkjh odejmgglh sXidmhhlekguX cikcjjgcjk celgsccjacedndXaiaielahqdlmgidesec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,1,24,21,8,47,11,18,5,4,1,27,9,13,10,35,8,25,5,1,6,30,4,42,9,30,19,17,3,22,10,14,17,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0011 1111111111 1011111101 0100011 1010 1101110011 1001111101 1101111100 1100011101 1001010111 1100011001 11110100001 011101100 0111011111 11010101101 1101111101 1101100111 11110010101 0101010101 01011100101 01010010101 01111101010 10001000101 1111011101 111100100101 1101111101 0111111111 1001011111 0101100111 1101110111 1101010111 1111010111 0101010111 1111011111 1111111001 1011011111 11111100101 1011010101 01001010111 011000100101 0101000101 0101011001 0101011111 1111110101 1111000110 1111110101 0101011101 1011010111 1101010001 1101111101 1101010101 1100110101 1100110001 1101111101 1101110111 11110101001 1111010101 11010111101 1101001101 1110011011 10001010001 1001000101 0101010101 0101110101 11011101001 1101010101 0101111101 10010100101 1001110111 110010101010 1101011101 0111010101 01000110101 1101010101 1111010101 11010111001 1101010101 1100010011 1101010101 01101100101 1101000101 00010010101 1101110101 1000010001 1001000111 11010101101 10010010100 1101010111 1101100101 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11001011101 0111110111 0111010111 0101000101 0111100101 1110010001 1001111111 0001000101 1101011001 10010100101 1001100111 1001010101 0101010011 0010100100 11111101001 1100010001 0101110111 11001010101 1111010111 1101010100 0100010101 0101000101 01010100100 0100110101 1101110111 1100010111 1011110111 0111010111 1001011101 1001111101 1101011011 1001011101 10010010101 1011110111 1111111101 100110001 1001111101 11010101001 1101011100 1111010011 1011010101 1101000101 1101110100 1001010101 0101010111 1011010011 1101101101 0101100101 0011100101 1101010101 0101010101 0011010111 1101000101 1111110101 1101011111 0101011101 0001111111 1100110101 11010001000 01010010101 1101011111 0101111101 0101010101 1101000111 01010001001 0101110101 0101010001 0111110111 0100111111 11110100101 1100010101 1101110101 11110010101 0101010001 0101010101 1101010111 1101111101 1011010011 10010010101 0101010101 1001011101 1101110111 0011011011 0111111101 1101011101 11010011111 0101111010 1100010101 11011010101 0101010001 11010001001 1100001101 11001010111 0101001011 1101001111 10010101010 010101101001 1101010101 1101111100 110111110 1111111101 1101011101 11011111101 1101011101 111001101110 100010000101 1101000101 1111010101 110010100101 1100011111 0011110001 1001000101 1111010100 10010101001 11010010100 1111011111 1001010101 1100110101 1001000101 0111000101 0101111101 0001000101 0110000101 1111000100 1111011101 00111111010 1101011101 1111110101 0111010101 1011010101 1100110101 0111010101 101101011 0 11011000101 11010111001 10011110111 1100101110 1101110101 1001110101 1101010111 1111011101 0101000101 0111110001 1001010101 1101010111 1101010101 0100010101 1111011111 10010100110 110111011 0001010001 1101011111 11000011111 0110010001 1101110001 00110101011 1101010101 1111110101 1001011111 1011010101 0101010101 1101110111 0101110001 1111011011 1111010101 0101010101 1101011101 1100010001 10111101101 0101010001 1101000101 0111010111 10110111111 1110010111 1101010101 1101000101 1011010111 1101011101 0101000101 1101110101 11010100111 1001111001 11001110101 1101010101 1111011101 0111111101 1111101001 0111110101 11110101001 1111111001 1011110001 1001000111 1011011101 0011010101 00010001110 0011100101 1111011101 1111111101 1111011101 1111011101 1001010111 0111110101 0101101101 1001110101 1101010101 1101100100 0111111101 11110001010 1101010101 0101111101 1001111101 01001000101 0101010101 1101000101 1001110111 1101111011 1101101101 1011100101 1011010101 11010111001 11000011110 1111000101 1101011101 1100011101 11000011101 1101111001 01011100111 1111110111 0101011100 1011000101 1100110101 1101111111 0111110101 0101110111 1001010111 0110010111 1110010010 1101110111 0101111101 1101000101 1101010101 1101100100 0011010001 1111010101 1011010001 1111110001 1000011101 11001101110 1101010011 1101110101 1011010101 0001110101 1110111100 111111 1100 10010100101 01010 00111 01011101010 110100111001 1101011101 01001010001 0101011101 110101001 1101011101 1111101001 01000010101 1111000110 1011110101 0101110101 1101101111 1110011101 11100010100 01001110101 1101011111 1101000111 11110011101 010111111 1111011011 1111110011 1101010101 1001000101 11111000101 1111010111 1110111101 11111100101 1101000101 0101011111 11110101111 1111010111 0111010101 1101110111 00100010101 0101011111 1110111011 1101110001 0011110001 1111010101 10010101001 0111010101 10001011111 1011011101 1111110110 1101010111 1101110111 1001110100 0101010100 1101100101 0101010101 11010101010 0101011111 01110101001 11110010100 1011011111 0101010101 0101110101 1101010101 11010100101 0101010100 1001000101 11011101010 1001011101 1111111101 11010011001 1111011111 0101110110 0111010101 1111010101 111101101011 1101010111 10110010001 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 35
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
  • Average number of words per stanza: 117
  • Amount of lines: 515
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and, heart, in, ', of, wind, blow, thy, from, not, now, some, would, her, that, it, to, love, o, had, them are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, his, a, of, now, is, o, had are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rain, sky are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase fled connects the lines.

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