This is an analysis of the poem The Sands Are Alive With Sunshine that begins with:
The sands are alive with sunshine,
The bathers lounge and throng,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa Xbcb cdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101011 010111 11001010 0100101 0111010 011101 101101010 10101001 11010010 111101 101101010 11001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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