This is an analysis of the poem On Home Beaches that begins with:
Back, in my fifties, fatter that I was then,
I step on the sand, belch down slight horror to walk...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXaXcbdaXXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10110101111 111011111001 010111010101 10110110111 100010101110111 100100101011100 011001001101 1001101101101 111011011101 010111011011001 101010101000110 0111110011010 1110110101111 1111100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 787
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of On Home Beaches;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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