This is an analysis of the poem Shipwrecked's Island that begins with:

An orphan of shipwreck
I'm in a gardenless land,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdbXdeefaXgdXcgbgXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010 0001001 011001 1101001011 0111011010 1010101 111111 1111111 1001011 001 1111110001 1001 1110101 111011 10 11 101101 0101010 1101010100 01011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Shipwrecked's Island;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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