This is an analysis of the poem The Wood And The Shore that begins with:
The low bay melts into a ring of silver,
And slips it on the shore's reluctant finger...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbaXXaXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110001010 11010101010 101100101010 01000101011 10111111010 11111111110 11011101110 101110111110 11011101011 01111011011 10111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 536
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Wood And The Shore;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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