This is an analysis of the poem Shells that begins with:
Where the long waves put cool, caressing hands
Upon the fevered temples of the shore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXabccbabba deedfddfgffg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110101 0101010001 10110111010 1101010001 0101010111 0101010101 1101010111 1011000101 1001010100 11010010101 0101110101 1011110101 1101111101 1111010111 0111010001 1110010001 0101011111 1111010101 0101010111 0111110001 11011100101 1111010111 1101010101 11111101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 532
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, of, to are repeated.
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