This is an analysis of the poem At Long Bay that begins with:
FIVE years ago! you cannot choose
But know the face of change,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XeXe fafX efef fgfg eheh ihih aeae gjgj agag agag gkgk XdedXdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 110101 101110101 010111 10011101 111101 11111111 010001 11010101 0100101 01110111 111001 11110101 111101 10110111 100100 11001101 011101 11010101 010101 11010101 010101 11010101 111111 11111101 011101 11101101 110101 01011101 011101 11010101 011101 11110111 111101 01111101 110101 110010001 110101 11011101 110101 01111111 110101 11010101 110001 11110101 110101 110101001 0101001 11110101 110101 110101001 010101 11111101 110101 01010101 100101 11110101 0100111 11010111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word five at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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