This is an analysis of the poem On The Beach At Night, Alone that begins with:
ON the beach at night alone,
As the old mother sways her to and fro, singing her husky song,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb cXdefXdadeXXdXXbcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1011010011100101 1110111011010010 0101010010 0110001001 11110111110 10101 1010000111101000010 1 1100011101 110001101001 111101011010110010 1001 11001001001001000100 101 11110110 1101010010010100 10100110101101101110 1 111110010110 011000101111111 010101100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 569
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, all are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase all connects the lines.
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