This is an analysis of the poem The Crown Of Empire that begins with:
Free is the wind that lashes into foam
The fortress waves that gird the Sea-King’s home... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaababccccddefefgghh bbidideecc jjghghggkk iilglgmmcc aagjgjggjj cXjbjbjjkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001110001 0101110111 1101111011 1111010111 10101000111 1101110101 1101110101 1101000111 0111110111 1111010101 10110100101 1001010001 10011001010 010010011111 010101010010 1101110101 1011101111 1001011001 11011100101 0101010101 1001110101 1101010101 1111011111 1101000101 1111010101 1011010001 01000101010 0100100010010 0101110110 01111100001 11010011101 0101010101 0101110101 11111010001 11010010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110101 1011001111 11001011101 1011010111 11010010011 1001010101 0101110101 1111011101 1111110101 0101111101 1111011101 1101101100 1101010001 11001100101 0011000111 0111010101 0101011101 1111010101 1101010101 10110010101 0101010111 0111010101 0101010101 0001011101 0101110100 0111010011 01010101001 1001000101 1011100101 010001101001 1101011001 1101010111 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 516
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, of, and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, the, from are repeated.
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- summary of The Crown Of Empire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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