This is an analysis of the poem The Rock In The Sea that begins with:

Think of our blindness where the water burned!
Are we so certain that those wings, returned ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabbb bccddaaeebb ff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010101 1111011101 11011101 0111011101 01011011 11110101 11111101 1001000101 10000101 1001111101 1101001101 1111001111 0101001111 010010101 11011101 11001101 11010101 11001001101 10010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Rock In The Sea;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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