This is an analysis of the poem Beeny Cliff that begins with:
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O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa aaaa Xbbb Xaaa accc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 10101010001100101 101010101011101 01011111110011 11 011100111011101 00101010101101001 1111100011111011 1 010111111111001 10010101000110001 110111011101001 1 101010101110001 111111111011101 101110111011111 1 101010101111101 010101110100101 111111101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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