This is an analysis of the poem The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls that begins with:
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbA aaaaA aaccA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0110011 011100101 01011111 0100100101 10110011 10101111 1010100101 010101111 01011001 10110011 010101011 11110101 01011101 010100001 10110011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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