This is an analysis of the poem The Net-Menders that begins with:

Halfway up from the little harbor of sardine boats,
Halfway down from groves where the thin, bitter almond pips...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcde edXea cXba Xee Xae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010100011 1110110110101 1001110111011 1011010010111 1111110011101 1010111 111110 1001001111011 101110110010 1110100110010 0101111111001 111010011101 1101011101111 1111101011100 1101101010111 0110101010011 1010110101010 11100011 01101 0010010001101 0110111101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word halfway is repeated.

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  • summary of The Net-Menders;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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