This is an analysis of the poem A Coral Island that begins with:
Girded by wastes of sounding foam,
Slumbers unseen the fruitful isle;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dcdcdd bcbcee fgfgcc hbhbcc cgcgaa ififjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10110101 10010101 10110101 11000101 111101001 10110111 10110101 01010111 01010111 11110101 01010101 10100111 11010101 11011101 11010101 101011101 10111111 11010101 11010101 010001001 01010001 110111011 11010111 010100101 01000101 110101001 11010111 010111001 10010101 11010111 10010001 111111001 11010111 11110101 11101101 11000111 01110101 01110101 11010111 01010101 11110101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of A Coral Island;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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