This is an analysis of the poem On The Beach At Night that begins with:

ON the beach, at night,
Stands a child, with her father,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc decabXX bfd XegdhhXXfXcXfh bg gbXgcXag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,3,14,2,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10111 1010010 10010101 11010 1100101001011010 101011011101 0100101101011001 01111011100 1111100101001 101001001011 0010110010010 110011100100100101 101001 111 11110 0110110111 0100111100100 11110101101001100 1010 10010101010101010 101101 1101011111001101 11011 01110101111011 01 0101011010101011 011 1101101101100 10001010100001 1010 01110110110 1110101001011000 1010101010101 1001001001111001 10110110101101001 1011110010101 10100100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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 weep is repeated.

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  • summary of On The Beach At Night;
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  • history of its creation;
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