This is an analysis of the poem The Storm that begins with:
Mark vi. 47-51.
Fear was within the tossing bark, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab bXbX bcbc dede fbfb bXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 11010101 110111 11110111 101111 11110011 110011 11111111 001111 10110111 110101 01010111 110101 11010101 110101 11010101 111111 111101010 110101 111101010 1011101 11110101 111010 11010101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words and, thou at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Storm;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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