This is an analysis of the poem The Temeraire that begins with:
The gloomy hulls in armor grim,
Like clouds o'er moors have met,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdXd abeb Xcccfg bXfbhbbXbcfcXaijigbebjfXfhhhX ebXbXdhdefXfXfcfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,29,18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 1110111 111111011 110101 11010111 110101 01001000 1100101 100010101 011101001 01110101 01001 010100 100101 101010 1101001 111111 111111 11011101 100 110011 010001 11011011 1 1101 0101110 1010101 100110 110101 11010101 110100 011011 110111 11000100 011101 01001100 010101 100100101 010011 101010 10101 1101010 010101 111111 10100101 1110101 100 10100101 010101 011101010 1101 110100 111101 11000011 110101 0101111 010001 01001111 110101 01010101 1101001 11111101 110101 10101110 1010011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, your, o are repeated.
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- summary of The Temeraire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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