This is an analysis of the poem Below The Water that begins with:
Debating whether or not,
The floodgates should be closed......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX aXX bXXXXa X X Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,6,1,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011 011101 101011 111 111111 11111000 101011 1 11010010 010101 1011101 0001010 111011010 111000101111 111110111011 11011 10
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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- summary of Below The Water;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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