This is an analysis of the poem The Tropics that begins with:
LOVE we the warmth and light of tropic lands,
The strange bright fruit, the feathery fanspread leaves, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaXaabcbcaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110101 01110100101 0101010101 0111010101 01001010101 010110110010 01010010111 0101110101 1101010011 0111110011 0101110111 01000010101 0111111101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 673
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Tropics;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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