This is an analysis of the poem Crossing The Atlantic that begins with:
We sail out of season into on oyster-gray wind,
over a terrible hardness....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXdeeXXdfdg hiXjjikhhdbXX dXdXd lldbieXhkadX emegfcmekb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,13,5,12,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100011011 10010010 11010101 01011101 1101101 1001 11101110010 11101 101100111 1011 1101 110011110101 11111110101 1101 0101101 11100 11001 10111100 011010 111001111010 10010011 0111100010 101011 11110 100110010 0111011111 110101110 110100011 1101011110 110110100100 11011011 110111010010 11111011010 11111001010 1111111110 111011110 11101001110 01011010010 1011 111101001 001 010101101 0101110101 10011001 0111 111010100 1010101010 1101 1011111101111 1001 1101001010 10111010 11011 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 54
- 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; i, have, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words those, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines voyage is repeated).
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- summary of Crossing The Atlantic;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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