This is an analysis of the poem The Tide Of Sorrow that begins with:
ON the twilight-burnished hills I lie and long and gaze
Where below the grey-lipped sands drink in the flowing tides, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc adbd eeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101111111 1010111100101 1111101101011 0101101 10101011101101 1110101110111 1110101011101 1100111 11101110101001 1111101010101 1010101110101 1100111 11101111100101 1011111010101 1010001111111 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, world are repeated.
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