This is an analysis of the poem The Pelican Island that begins with:

Light as a flake of foam upon the wind,
Keel-upward from the deep emerged a shell,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdeabXfgdXhX gec XXgfadXaaXXiiiccgcigXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,3,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 1100010101 1101110101 1011010101 11100101010 0101000101 1101011101 1001010111 11011101010 0101010101 1100010001 11010100110 0101010100 11010111 01 0101010111 11010111001 11010101010 01110001110 10110101010 11111100010 0101010101 00101111001 11111101010 0111010101 10011100010 1111010101 1101010101 01010100011 10110111110 01011101010 0101010111 11010011101 010010101110 1101010111 11010011010 01010010100 1110010101 1100011110 0111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 573
  • Average number of words per stanza: 101
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, in are repeated.

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  • summary of The Pelican Island;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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