This is an analysis of the poem The Briny Grave that begins with:

You wonder why so many would be buried in the sea,
In this world of froth and bubble,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXccbdbXedeXXfgfghXhXXeieijcjcc akXkkekee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101010001 00101110 1111010101 101101010 11111010 11111011111 1010001010 00101010 11110101011 101110010 111110101 111101001 0100100101 1010001010 1110100101 1011010010 11110010 11111010001 111111111 1111110111 10101011 0101111101 101101110 11111111101 001001110 1101101110 01010100111 101101111 11110101001 1111110 10111001111 110010010 1111111101 11011010 11111010 011010010101 11100010010 101011010101 101001010 011110111 00111010 1111100101 001101010 101101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 881
  • Average number of words per stanza: 178
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; no, for, there, and, of are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines maker, steerage, trotters, together, second are repeated).

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  • summary of The Briny Grave;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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