This is an analysis of the poem To William Shelley that begins with:
I.
The billows on the beach are leaping around it,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcddaa Xeaeaffaa Xbcbcggaa XhihiXjak adXdblljjj akmakamddfff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,10,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 010101110010 010111 0111101110 10101 10110101 10110101 101111111 10100111101 1 11101101101 11100111 1110011101 11101001 0010110101 111010101 11011111 01110111 1 11010111 010101 11110101 110111 01010101 11100111 11010100 01011101 1 1101001110 10100101 11101011010 11111001 00100100101 0100111011 11111101101 1110100100 1 111111101 010001110 101110101 110111110 11110111 01111101 01011101 11010101 111111001 1 010001100 001010101 111110101 001110100 11010001 11011101 01011101 01110101 11010001 01011111 010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; have, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, come, they are repeated.
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