This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Wave Xvii that begins with:
The strong shore is my beloved
And I am his sweetheart. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbde fgah eXijd gjkeh ijX eaejk hiceakj fali lkme Xkgmk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,5,5,3,5,7,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101010 111011 1111010111 1011101 110101101 0100010 1011 11100010 1010010100 1101010011 1101010 11011010 111011110 110 11101010101 01110101100 11001101010 111111001 0111111011 010101100 11011100 1011101110 1001110010 1 1011110111 111001110 01110101 1011111001 0110111001 101111011 1100001110 11011000 1011110101 110010001010 1110111 11 1011110100 11010001010 111001011 111110110 001000111 101010101 1110111110 1010110111 011001101 11101010101 01 11010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, them are repeated.
The author used the same words i, many at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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