This is an analysis of the poem The Calm that begins with:
Brothers, have you observed the calm?
Even the leaves of that symbolic palm... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbccddedXdd ddffghgbbXciijjiiaakXdddllmmnn llnnfbdfdiiccodoXdXoddombbccciXieppffbqqffmkkaa cqqXnbnndqqefrfbkkXf Xmejmrho
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,30,47,20,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 1001010101 1011010011011101 1010101010101 01 110111001010 01101101010001010110 1011001 0111010101011101 11110110101001001010 10101011101 11000011010001 1101010101011110 11011111001010 100101101010101001 10111011001 101110010 1111101101010 110100111 01101010011010010111 1101011 111 1101001101 110100110101110100 100010001001001110 1010110010111 1 10010000101010 00101010 101101 1010011 0001010101 001 10010010 0011001011001000 01111101101110101 011101001 11101 11101001111011001 1011 01111 1101001000001 01000110101 11111 1101011101110100001 1110010101 01110110101001 001010101 1111010101010011 10100010010010101 1000010 11101001101011010001 0101010 0100010110101 11101 11111010101010 001010101010 010001010101001001100100010 1 101000101010101000100010 1101000101111010 01001 111101110001000011 1010010 0010001000101001000101 010101110100010111010 10 1011111010110111 101010 10111001001010 111111110 11101110 10101010010 010100100010111 111010111001011001000 1 111011000011101000 1000101001 100010111100011 1111011001001010 010010011110010 1111011001110111 01001 110010011 11101001010 1101010010100010 1100100010110010100 111 110101010101001 001 1 010111110101110100010 100110011 101000100101001 11010110100001001 0101 0110010011011001001 11101001 1011101010101 01000010101101000101 0100111001 11011110001001111 10101111111011110 1 11001011101001001001 10101001 11111010110110111 0111110101010 11101011110110010 10 10111110001001100011 101110111 11010101011101010110 1101101111010111000 0100111 1001011001010010101 0101100111101010101 010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 933
- Average number of words per stanza: 159
- Amount of lines: 121
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; you, to, those, they, of, blast, and, ye, your, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words those, have, do are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases blast, fish connect the lines.
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- summary of The Calm;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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