This is an analysis of the poem The Beach Comber that begins with:
I'd like to return to the world again,
To the dutiful, work-a-day world of men, -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeebbffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100100101 00100101101 101001101 001010101 0011011010001 10100101101 101101101001 11110101111 01001111101 001001111111 001101011011 111001101001 111011111111 11101101111 101001011111 1010010110101 011101101111 101011111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 922
- Average number of words per stanza: 181
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, to, in are repeated.
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