This is an analysis of the poem Salvage that begins with:
Not the encounter of navies in battle array -
The roar of salvoes - the smoke-wrack that darkens the day -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bc dd bc ee fc ggXfcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001001001 0101001111001 1011001001 101001010 1011001101101 010101011001101 1011010101111 1100110 1011001001111 01001101111101 1010110111 10100110 1011001001001 1001001001001 1011011011001 101110 1100101011010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
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- summary of Salvage;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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