This is an analysis of the poem Mussel Hunter At Rock Harbor that begins with:

I came before the water —-
Colorists came to get the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcbdb ebdbdbc dfffXcb gdfbahb bcgXif hjXfikf fgfdXfb bjcegcX jgdbXfk XgaXflX aXfffle dXgejbh Xbgbhfg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,6,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 1001010 00011110 1101010 1111011 0011011 1010010 1101111 1110110 10111011 1000101 1111111 1111110 1011010 1111010 1001011 0101111 0100101 0111011 1011111 1110110 0110101 1000110 0010101 1011111 1111010 0111110 11111001 1011010 10011111010101 0111111 1100011 10111001 1010011 1110110 1101011 1000100 11001110 1000101 01011010 1011101 0101001 1101010 1001111 0100011 1001001 1101111 1000101 1110111 1101001 1111111 10001001 1010100 1011110 1011010 1010101 1001111 1010010 1100101 1011101 1010111 0110001 1001011 0111111 1101010 1101010 0011011 01001001 0110101 0101110 1101111 1111111 1111001 1010101 1110101 0111111 1011100 1110101 0101111 1010111 1111101 1110111 1111110 10101100 0111010 10100101 1011001 1110110 1000101 1010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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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