This is an analysis of the poem Mangroves that begins with:
These black bush-waters, heavy with crusted boughs
Like plumes above dead captains, wake the mind.... ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc adcdaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110100101 1101110101 11010100001 1101011101 1111011111 11110100101 01111100101 10101111001 1101111101 010101011010 11010011101 1101111001110 1101111101 1111010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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- summary of Mangroves;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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