This is an analysis of the poem By The Sea that begins with:
A LITTLE country churchyard,
On the verge of a cliff by the sea ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xded aaXa XcXc aaXa cfXf Xghg Xdfd cdcd hdid hbXb cceX hcdX dcic Xbgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011 101001101 1010010111 10101101 11110010 110101 0111100101 110101 11101011 11001011 001001011001 11011001 1010011010 11001001 1101011101 001101110 101001110 010110011 0110101100 10111001 101101010 101101 011101100 1110111 1011011010 11101001 1011010010 111001111 101001110 0101001 10111001001 100110101 1110111010 1110101 11011001001 11011001 11101010 111101001 101101111101 11100101 11001110 01001001 110100101 11100100 1011011010 11101001 111111001 001001011 111110110 110010010 01101011 0010010101 11011010 111011011 1101101111 1100101 01011010 11001001 1111101111 11101001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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