This is an analysis of the poem Fish that begins with:
The sea came in with her and her curved snout
and her tin coloured barnacles...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc aaXc abd deefbb dfXcXdeaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,6,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110001011 10110100 111011 101010 01101011 10111011010 1010111101 0010010 011000101001 100101 10001 01100 1011 110101 11100 0010001 101010011 011100 110010 10101 1110 0111110 101111010 010011000110 10010100 11
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word body at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Fish;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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