This is an analysis of the poem On The Beach At Fontana that begins with:
Wind whines and whines the shingle,
The crazy pierstakes groan;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 0101001 011110110 100001 0101110 111111 110100100010 1101 0111010 100101 101111010 101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
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