This is an analysis of the poem Sea-Foam that begins with:
A fleck of foam on the shining sand,
Left by the ebbing sea,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdede fgfgabXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110101 110101 110111101 0101100 1010111 100111 101100101 101111 01011111 11010101 010100111 010101 011110111 101011101 010100100 101100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sea-Foam;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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