This is an analysis of the poem The Fish that begins with:
I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcbdbdefghgijiklfmhhhilnaiifignihXbXiXbeobfppqqXhgbfclilqmiokplqbXrhjfiorX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 76,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101 1110101 11010011 10010001 1101 110111 110101 1011000 110111 011101 110110 10100101 11110 111110 11111 11100100 11101 1010 010111 1101111 101111 1010100 0100100 01001 11101 111110 1100111 10110 01110101 0010111 001010 101110 101100 110001 1011011 11001100 0100111 01010 11010 011100 11001011 00111 0111010 01100101 10100101 01010001 1111 100101 0111001 111100 11110011 11101010 0010101 011111 110001 0111101 111011001 10111 1100111 10111101 1100110 11100 0111010 1000101 1111 110011 010101 00101 1111011 0101010 00101010 0111 010111 01001101 1111111 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2068
- Average number of words per stanza: 378
- Amount of lines: 76
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, his, rainbow are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, the, with are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lip is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Fish;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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