This is an analysis of the poem Wardens Of The Wave that begins with:
Not to exult in braggart vein
Over a gallant foe,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgcgc hchciXiX XjXjhkXk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 100101 11010101 010101 1001001001 110101 11110101 010001 111100111 001101 11011101 010101 10010111 100111 10011001 010101 10110101 010101 11101001 1100101 10011101 100101 10010001 110111 11010101 110011 1011001100 111101 11110101 110001 00110101 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Wardens Of The Wave;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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