This is an analysis of the poem Egypt, Tobago that begins with:
There is a shattered palm
on this fierce shore,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac cddd effe gfhX bbea aiXX djcd eXbj XXcj jddc cbhh kicb jeig hdkd kddd cjcj j XXeee eede gleX l jXdjj gggjXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,5,4,4,1,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 1011 010101 1001100 11000010 10001 11110101 10100110 1001 0010 00110 10010010 011101 01110 10110010 011010 110011 01011 10110101 110101010 1110101 11100101 1011 1010010010 0111001 1110 0110 101110010101 0110010 0101 01001 0101010101 010111 100100 101100 1111010 01 001001 0101010 100110 11010 1011 11011001 11110101 1011001 01110 101110 101 01 01010 0111101 1101011 001011 00101 010011 11011001 011101 101101 10111 0101010 01010 00111 0101110 00111 1100110001 11110 0101010 10010 010101 1110 10011 10111 001001 100100 1100111 0111 1101 1011110000 11011011001 10111 11100 10010 100101 01011 1011 010010100 10101010 10101 01010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, the, this are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Egypt, Tobago;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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