This is an analysis of the poem Beachcomber that begins with:
When I have come with happy heart to sixty years and ten,
I'll buy a boat and sail away upon a summer sea;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac dXdXbbbb eeeeaaaa abaXfgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101010011 11011101010101 10010101111101 01111101010101 11110001110011 10011101100001 11010111010101 110100101010101 11110111010101 01011100110111 01000101111101 11110101111000 11110111111001 110110010100011 110101001110101 11010100110101 11110111001001 11111101010111 11110001110011 100101110101001 11110100010011 11010111010011 10011101100110 110101010111101 11110101010011 11010101010101 11111101111101 110101101110100 11111101111101 10011101111101 100100101111101 11010101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 463
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as, to, i'll, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with are repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Beachcomber;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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