This is an analysis of the poem Down On The Shore that begins with:
Down on the shore, on the sunny shore!
Where the salt smell cheers the land;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdedeXeeeeaX aeXecfXfdfgggag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101 1011101 1011110101 101101001 1010100101 1100101 1011010111 11001001 101011001001 110101 1011110101 1011101001 100100111 0010110101 011101 110110101 0110101 111110101 11101001 1011111101 10101001 1011111101 0110101 1011110101 11001101 111110101 101010101 0010110101 1000110101 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; on, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, and are repeated.
The author used the same word down at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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