This is an analysis of the poem The Crossing that begins with:
Monsters merge and welter through the water's mounting
Din. All hands, stand fast! A sailor sprints aloft, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa abbb XbX Xcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101110101010 11111010101 1101010101001 010101010111 010101111111 1101010101101 010101010101 1100101110101 11010101100101 11010101010101 110011110010101 01101101010111 001111011101 111011111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Crossing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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