This is an analysis of the poem The Stone that begins with:
Have you seen an old grey stone on the seashore, when at high tide, on a
sunny day of spring, the living waves break upon it on all sides-break and...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc dX dX XXXXac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111011111110 1010010101101011111 1010101101001101010 101001 010101110101010100 110 110111110101011100 1011101001010 101011111010100011010 11111010101010 1101001001110 0111011010111110 1010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, on, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Stone;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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