This is an analysis of the poem Santorini - The Naked Child that begins with:
Bend if you can to the dark sea forgetting
the flute's sound on naked feet ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX Xcd efghad Xeijbia iei eheebjkfklllfekkXecgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,6,7,3,21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110011010 01011101 111100100101 10111111 010101 11000011101 11011010101 1001010 1001101 00110011 111011010 011101010 10010100000101 101100111001 1010011 10010 00111101101 00111111 010111110 1001 11010 1001101 1111100011 1111101 110010 1011011 1011011 101101010 1111 0101 110111 1100101 11101 110101 11110101 1001110111 1001 10011 11 1111100011 11000101 11 1101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 43
- 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; land, that, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words watching, in, when are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines everywhere, cry are repeated).
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