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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcaX dedeXX fbfbgX hihihh djdjaa FAFakk lflfgg mimikk ninXXg gXXoff plplaa FAFaaa jfjfaa hihiXX ihihgg bfbfXX gogngg ghghhh eqeqgg Xrfrss dmdmhh bnbniX omomrX ihihaX ekekaX oioiooXmkmkaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010 10111101 100101 0101011001 011100101 1110101010 00011110110 1011111001 00111011 1110010101 010011101 1011110010 1101001110 0110100101 11101 000111001 010101101 0110111110 111011010 10110111 1011101 100100101 100101101 11010111010 110101010 111100111 11110111 010101101 100100101 1001101010 1011001110 01010100101 111010010 1010010111 1101111010 00100101010 101001010001 1111101010 1110101 101001010 100100111 111101010 110101010 10110110101 0100111 1010101011 01001011101 1100110010010 1011001010 1010011111 1011101 1100110101 11011101 11001101100 111110010010 001011011 1111001 011101101 111100101 11010110100 11010110100 110101101 1101101 1111001001 100101101 101001010110 10101011010 01010100101 111010010 1010010111 1011011010 11001001010 10001001110 110010101 101111 111010111 1010100101 0011101010 011101010 01110111 11101001 100100101 111011101 1001011100 01011001100 1110110101 101111101 1110100101 00101001101 1101101100110 11001011110 11011111 1100101 110010011 1111101001 11010101000 1110010010100 111100111 10100111 11001101001 0110101101 110101010 0111111010 110111010 0101001 1001001110 101110111 1011110010010 111001001010 1011011101 010101 1100101101 01011101 101010101010 011100010 11001010 01011000 100100101 010100100 110101010 100101010 111111001 110111 110110101 00101011101 101111010 10111010010 1111011011 1110101 100111001 111100101 0101001011 101101011011 0110101001 1101101 1011011111 100111111 01111111010 111001101000 01011001001 1011101 100100101 1111110101 11111011010 10111001010 011101101 000101 1111111101 1111111100 101010111110 111111010010 01001001001 0110101 1110100101 1101101101 0101010110 11011111110 11011001001 01001001 10110101 1111100101 11111111110 01011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 164
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and, he, with, me, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, they are repeated.

    The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Diver;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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