This is an analysis of the poem Loon Point that begins with:
Softly the water ripples
Against the canoe's curving side, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xada aaef daaa cfdf XeXe abXb ghghXfaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010 01010101 1001110 10101101 10011110 1010111 110101 110111 1101110 11011011 11010010 1010111 0011010010 10101001 0111110 010101 01001010 01011001 1110011010 11010001 101001010 01011101 110110110 1111001 1010011010 0110111 1011010110 1111101 111010010 01001011 1111010110 110110001 10100010011 11001111 11001001 101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word softly at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Loon Point;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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