This is an analysis of the poem The Light On The Wreck that begins with:
Out there by the rocks, at the end of the bank,
In the mouth of the river, the Wanderer sank.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddee ffbbaaXbbccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101001 001001001001 101011011011 11001101011 111101001111 1010001001101 101101101001 001101001001 101110111001 101011101001 111101011101 111011001001 101001111001 101001101011 101101001001 0010010010011 101001111001 101011101101 101101101001 101001101001 101011010101 111111011011 111011011011 111011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 415
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; and, on, for, of, in, watch, from, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, keep are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word wreck at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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