This is an analysis of the poem Jaws that begins with:
Seven nations stood with their hands on the jaws of death.
It was the first week in August, Nineteen Hundred Fourteen. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXXXXBaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101110101 01011010111011 11100101000111100 1101101100 1101101 1110011 1110 11110101 1010100101110 11 01010110111110 11
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 470
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; listening is repeated.
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- summary of Jaws;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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