This is an analysis of the poem Kennack Sands that begins with:
On Kennack Sands the sun
Shines, and the fresh wind blows,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcdeaefffdggfhabahbeehaiibX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 110111 101101 101101 10101 111001 1010101 1000101 111101 111101 100111 011101 101101 010101 010101 100100 111101 110111 10011 010011 011001 01101 00101 111110 1101111 111111 110101 101111 00101110 100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 806
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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