This is an analysis of the poem Sand Martins that begins with:

I passed an inland-cliff precipitate;
From tiny caves peeped many a soot-black poll;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede fefe XaXa gege chch adad hehe beXe hbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110101 01011100111 0101010101 1001010011 0101010111 1001011101 1011010101 1001110111 1101111101 0001111011 0101111101 1011000101 1100011001 1011110101 110011100111 1111010001 1101011001 1101110101 1001000101 1011010101 1001011100 1111011111 11001101001 0101010101 1111110111 01001011101 1101100111 1001010101 11010100111 1101000101 1101000111 0100010101 1110011101 111111101 0101000111 0100010011 0101010111 11011101011 1101111110 01010100111 1110101001 0111110101 1111010111 1011011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wags, world, and, would are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words gossip, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Sand Martins;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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