This is an analysis of the poem Kara that begins with:
Chequered with sunshine and shade—the umbrage of white clouds in motion—
Rearing their summits to Heaven, broken like waves on their strands,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcXc dada efef XeXe Xbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001111010011010 101100101011111 10110110010010010 11010111001001 10110010110010010 100101111001001 10110010011010010 100101111001011 11110110010110110 10010011111011 1101011100010110 100100101011001 1001011110111010 10010011011011 1101001010011010 1101001001011001 10010010100010110 10110011001001 10110010110110010 10010111011001 1001001110110010 110111111001001 110011010010010010 10011011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, s, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word soundeth is repeated.
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- summary of Kara;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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