This is an analysis of the poem Atlantis that begins with:
Out in the chill seas of yesterday,
Where the waters are aching and break in tear spray,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbcc aaXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110101 101011011011 101001111001 101101011101 101101001011 1001111001 11001011011 10110001001 1001011111 1001001101 1101011001 1001011010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word back is repeated.
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- summary of Atlantis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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