This is an analysis of the poem The Wind And The Sea that begins with:
I STOOD by the shore at the death of day,
As the sun sank flaming red;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababababbcbcXdedfdfdegegdbdbadaXaeaedbdXdbdbhihihjhjdddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110101 1011101 10100101101 111101001 1110100101 10100101 111100111 1011111 011110111 11111010 011110111 1111010 1110111110 10111010 1100110101 001101010 1011100101 1011111 110011110 0111101 110010111 10000101 1111011001 1011101 0111001111 0101101 111110101 10100011 0010110111 010111 1011110101 110110 1101110111 110101 1011000111 1011101 1110011111 1100101 110000101 1111101 1011100101 1100011 1010110101 10101001 101110001 1110111 110101101 1110101 1011110111 1010111 110010111 011101 111100101 1010111 11010111 011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2041
- Average number of words per stanza: 417
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, as, his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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