This is an analysis of the poem Missing that begins with:
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She was spoken off Saint Vincent, outward bound . . ....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbccaaXXddeebbffccddggddhhbbddaaeeiibbffhhddcccc X eejjbbjjhhjjXebbccbbiiddddjjbbeejjaaiiaaaa X bbbbXfhggbbkkddddkXddiiddii X eeddllffaaccjj jmmddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,48,1,42,1,27,1,14,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1 11101110101 1101010101 1001011101 100011100111 1111010101 10011010101 01010101010 10011101010 1111000111 1011010101 1101011101 0101110101 1011011101 0111010111 1111111101 1011110101 1111010111 1111011101 1101100111 1001011101 0110010101 01010110001 1101010111 010110111 1011001111 1101110101 1111111101 1111000101 0011001100 1111010111 01000111001 10100111100 1101011101 1011011011 11110111010 10111101110 1101110101 101101011 0111000101 10110000101 1111100101 011111011 111110101 10010010111 1111100101 0101010111 11010100101 1011010111 1 1011110101 1111010101 0111011011 110011100111 1101010101 1001010101 1101110101 1101111001 1111110111 0111010101 1011011001 1001110101 1111010101 1111101101 0100100101 1101010001 1011110011 1101100111 1010111001 11001111101 10011100010 10011101010 0111010011 01011100111 1100010101 1101010001 0101111101 1101010101 1101110101 0101110101 10110011101 0101111101 1001010101 1101000101 1101100101 1111010101 01010101001 1111010101 1101010111 1101000111 0101010110 1110010001 1 1111110111 1111111101 1111010101 10101110111 1101100110 1101011111 1101111101 11001110101 1101010111 1111000101 1111111011 1111110111 1111110101 1111001010 01111111110 0101110101 0101011111 1101110101 10111110101 10010111001 1101010101 11011101101 0110011111 00111101001 1111101111 10111101010 100101001010 1 1111110101 1101110111 1011011101 1011000111 1111101101 1011010101 11111011101 1011010111 1111111101 1001011101 1101010101 1101110101 1001010111 1011110101 10101011110 10010100010 11111010110 1011101011 01110011111 1101010101 11010101111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 727
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 142
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; her, and, or, that, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thought, the, or, and, where are repeated.
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- summary of Missing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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