This is an analysis of the poem The Reef that begins with:
My green aquarium of phantom fish,
Goggling in on me through the misty panes;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba Xccd effe Xbbg hihi jddj klkl egge hmXm ebbe ifif gdXd Xmmh ekekXhghg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101000101 1001110101 1101111001 1111010111 1111101100 10110010111 1111100111 0100011111 1101010101 10010010100 1101111011 1111110111 1101110100 01010101011 10110001111 1111010111 1110010101 1011010011 101010011 1101101111 11011101011 1011011101 1101010101 1011110101 10110110010 0101000111 110100111110 1110011011 101110101010 0101110110 1001011111 100111011010 1111111001 11110100010 010010101100 111101010110 11101100101 1010010111 1001111101 111100101 011100111 1101111011 00100010111 1100010001 11110101010 1101101101 0100111100 10110001011 110011010100 11100100010 101100001001 010011110110 11010010111 01100101010 1101111111 010101000010 01010010101 1110100101 0100101111 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; my, i, and, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
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- summary of The Reef;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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