This is an analysis of the poem The Golden Whales Of California that begins with:
Part I.A Short Walk Along the Coast
Yes, I have walked in California, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bacaAAbdedbcacfgcg ccccchijikfllafegkgbkmk c nnooceecccacbkakXogOAAc aXafkhkpocOAAXcccceeecfX fXemXeecccc m acccaaoobah annfcphcccefhcfFbXeefccoa apppknnaqFeq X aahb FjFnnFXaaFqqFqFeFffFfFfFaFaF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,18,23,1,23,24,11,1,11,25,12,1,4,28,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101 111101010 101011111 1000111010 10011111 101010101 110100101 11011101010 01011110 1010110110 1011110010 101010101010 10101001 1101110 111111 10101110 101011 111101010 1011101 100110000101 111110110101 1101010 10001 1100100101001 0111101110 10011101 10111110101 1011111 01010111010 0110111 0010101 00100101 0010010101 101010001 1010111010 11110101 1011100101011101 1011001111 101000101010 1111101 0001011010 01010101 1110001 10011001 01010101011 11111111 1011101001 110101010 010110111 10010000101 1011110011 010010101 11000111 01010010 1011101 1111101010 1110111 101011111 1100011 1011111001 10100101 1011001101 1111111 101010101 110100101 111001010 11101111 0111110 1010011 10100101010 010010101 0100100010 1011101 01111110 0101101 11010111 1111111 101010101 110100101 111111110 111111 1001011 1100101 111011011 1111101 1111011 10110101 111101010 1110101 11101110 1100111 101111011 101101111 1011110010 1101100 11101000111 01110111 1101010101000 100101 111100100010 1101111 111001010 1010110111 011101 10100110 110101 1101001011 1100100101 1011100111 11011101 010101010 1110101 111010100 111101 1110101001 1100110111 11011 111111 10110 100100 1111 110110 11110 111110 11011 110110 1101110 01011001 010001 101010101010 11111101 101001 1111011 010101101 1101110 010010 10101 11 0101 11011010010 001101101010 1001111010 1101011010 10011 10011 11001001001 00101111 010001 1111010 011111 11010011 1100111111 10110101 1101010100010 01101001010100 0111 110111101 0111 10010101111 01000100011001 111 1001000111 111100101 111 1001000101 1001000111 111 10010001111 111 001010101010 111 110101010101 110101000111 111 100100111 111 1001001101 111 11001000100011 111 0100011010011 111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 440
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 185
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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, of, they, his, west, gold are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, the, they, he, what are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pole is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word gold at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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