This is an analysis of the poem The Return that begins with:
HE stood above the well-known shore ;
Behind, the sea stretched dull and gray:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cdcd XaXa XaXa eXcX Xbcb abXb afcf eaaa fXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010111 01011111 11000101 011101 11111101 11101101 01110101 111101 10011101 00111111 01011101 010101 0101001001 01111101 01010101 111001 11110101 010111111 01110001 111111 11111001 11110111 110100101 111101 01111101 01110100 01110101 101101 11001101 10110101 10010101 111101 11011111 11010101 11011111 110101 11010101 010101110 11011111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; past, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word more at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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