This is an analysis of the poem The Wreck that begins with:
Seared bone-white by the glare of summer weather,
Cast side-long, on the barren beach she lies,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101010 1111010111 11110111010 1111111101 0111010101 1000111111 1111110111 1101011111 11111111010 1101010100 111010100110 1101110001 1011010111 0101011101 1101010001 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; her is repeated.
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