This is an analysis of the poem On Top Of High Tides that begins with:
Leave behind those low tides.
Tasteless, baseless....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcada Eebf GgBgHIgggb Jg EXbhdagifc GgBgHIgbXJiggej
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,10,2,10,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 1010 1100 0111101 0011001 11011 1010101 110010 11001 11001 111 1111 1010101 1111 0110100 0111 101 101111 1011 10 110111 10001101 1010101 10111000 101001 1101010 101101 101110 1110011 0010101 0101111 010100 111 111 1010101 1001 0110100 0111 1001 110010 110111 01111 110011 11000100 0110010 00010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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 On Top Of High Tides;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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