This is an analysis of the poem The West that begins with:
The sea grew silent like a seething bowl
That falls as the flame dwindles; backward led...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bebe ebeb bfbf dgdg bebe hbhb icic jdjd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010101 1110110101 0111001101 11010010001 1011100101 1101010111 11110010001 0101100101 11011110101 1011011101 0111110111 1111000101 1011111011 0101010111 1100110101 0111110101 1101010111 1101110101 01001110101 01010010001 1111000101 1101110101 1111100101 1101000101 1000101011 10001100101 1111110011 0111001111 1111011101 11110100101 1101010111 1101001100 1111111001 1111010111 1111111111 1001011101 0111010101 0111101101 0101100111 1101011111 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, in, you, o, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thereto, o are 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 The West;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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