This is an analysis of the poem The Bight that begins with:
At low tide like this how sheer the water is.
White, crumbling ribs of marl protrude and glare...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacXdXeeXXcXXXbfadgafaeaXcXgXaXXXad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110110100 11001010111 101110101110 0101011001 010001101101 01000111111100 11101001010100 111001010001010 01010111101001 0101011001110 011111001 00001010101001 01011100 1010101010110 11010100100 11110111 11001 11011110101 11011001110 010111100 0001010010 100010111 11010010010 1001010100101 11011011 0111111101 10011011 10010111111 011101111110 1111001100000111 111011010 010100110000 11101 1110101001 100100100010 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1558
- Average number of words per stanza: 275
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; one, with, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, one are repeated.
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- summary of The Bight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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