This is an analysis of the poem Rocking that begins with:
A thousand waves
Divine the sea she rocks ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaC XbaCXabaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 010111 110101 111111 1101 010011 110101 111111 0101 101101 110101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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.
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- summary of Rocking;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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