This is an analysis of the poem The Air Plant that begins with:
Grand Cayman
This tuft that thrives on saline nothingness,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XbXb bcXc dede XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110 0111101100 01010101001 110001111010 0110011101 0101000111 0100010011 0101110101 01110000101 0101110101 0101110101 11000010111 1111000111 1101011000001 1101011101 1101010101 00101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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