This is an analysis of the poem The Optimist that begins with:
“Ships - they’re all right,” said Murphy, “for all you hear folks tell.
There some shoves their bows under in a seaway, and there’s some rolls...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdX eeffggXccddgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110111111 111111000111101111 10111111111101 011001101101101 111111011001010 101011111110010 11011011101101011 11111101011011 0111110001101 0111111110 101001100101100101 1011111001011101 1100100110111011 101111110101111 1111110110010 101111110100111110 100110111110101111 1111011011111 10101000111111 1111111001110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 453
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some, there, and, they, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Optimist;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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