This is an analysis of the poem Thoreau and the Snapping Turtle that begins with:
As his boat glided across a flooded meadow,
He saw beneath him under lily pads,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcd cefbX gedah becXi eXXej cbXefjeibb iefih gahaaXbi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,10,5,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100101011 1101110101 111101011 10101011010 110111111 110101000010 101101101110 10110011111 101001011010 00010011011 101111100 101110101 111001111001 100110110101 110001101001 110111010010 01111001 10111110110 01110110101 110100111101 010010111100 1001110111 010101101011 10011100100 01001010011 1111010010010 110101001110 0100111010000 11011110001 101011101010 1111011101 11111101110 100100100100 101110111110 1011111010010 10111100101 0101011100 0111110000011 11011100010 1011101100101 0110110100 010110100 0001010111 111010011101 11001111111 1110011100 10011101001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; he, it, its, by are repeated.
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- summary of Thoreau and the Snapping Turtle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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