This is an analysis of the poem Wamberal that begins with:
Just a shell, to which the seaweed glittering yet with greenness clings,
Like the song that once I loved so, softly of the old time sings -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdX eeXXccXX ccbbffdd aaddaagg hhiibbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101110010101 101111111000111 100011101010101 1011101001000101 101110111011101 101111101010111 101010101010111 00110001010010100 1110100101011101 101011101111001 1010101010010001 101111111010101 101010101000101 1011101010100101 101110101010101 101110101010100 100010101010101 101011101010001 1010101010101001 101110101010101 101010101010101 1011100101011001 111011101011101 001010101010101 101010101110101 111100100011101 111110111010101 101010101010101 1110111111100111 101111101011101 101001101010101 111111111110101 101010101110111 101101111011101 1010111010010111 1001010001010101 111011100010111 111011100010101 1000101000100101 101010101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 525
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (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; of, and, there, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word come is repeated.
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- summary of Wamberal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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