This is an analysis of the poem Liverpool that begins with:
Thro' the dead dark water under skies aglow,
Thro' the shaken shadows silently and slow,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc ddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010101 10101110011 10101110111 10101010111 111010110001 1101010110011 101010110111 101000100101 10101110111 10101010101 101100111101 10111011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thro', of, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thro', no are repeated.
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- summary of Liverpool;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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