This is an analysis of the poem An Ending that begins with:
Early March.
The cold beach deserted. My kids ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXccdefdgXhbfhfigfXfgcjdihgcidkcafkcfjeXfieeeiadiiceeejaeeaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 01101011 10011101 11000110 10001011 101100101 11101001011 01111101 111101 11010101 1010011 10101101 01110100 10011110 11101001 111111 101101110 111010001 110111 1101011100 10110111 00111011100 00101011 01011010 1011011 10111011 0010111 011011 11101010 1010011 111111 00011111 1100101 1111101 110111 0111001 010101111 110111 00010010 110111 01010101 01010111 1110110 0101101 001010111 10010101 010101011 1011101 0101111 111010101 010011101 1111010001 11011101 11101111 1000111 1110111 01011011 1011101 011110 1111101 11010111 11111 111101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2017
- Average number of words per stanza: 395
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sea is repeated).
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