This is an analysis of the poem The Map that begins with:
Land lies in water; it is shadowed green.
Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddc XXbXXXbebcb bXabbeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101000101 11111101010 10010111010 1110010101 1101110101010 1001010101 01011101 00110101010 01101001111 100101010101 1101111101 10011010010010 110001011101001 0101111101 010101010010 01010100001010 11010110101 110001010011110 110101010011 11011101010 100111011000 11111101010 11010101110 1101110101110 1101001010101 010001110011111 1100101001011010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 433
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 27
- 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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Map;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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