This is an analysis of the poem Shells that begins with:
Reaching down arm-deep into bright water
I gathered on white sand under waves ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaacb adaceeXXX dXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,9,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011100110 110111101 11011101101 01001110011 1111101000 01010001010011 10110111010010 1011001010 10101010101 1001110101 01001010101 010110101010001 0100110101 1010001101 101110010110 111010 11101011101 110001001100011 01001110010011 01110101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; from, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
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- summary of Shells;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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