This is an analysis of the poem Tide of Storms that begins with:

Allegro con fuoco
Crooked, crawling tide with long wet fingers...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111010 1010101110 10101010011101 101101101010 111011010101 10011011001110 1101111111010 111111010111010 111100101101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • 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, tide are repeated.

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  • summary of Tide of Storms;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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