This is an analysis of the poem Sea Deep In Darkness that begins with:
I've been trained to kill!
Of course....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXX acdccXc Xbec ccc aacXc ecdaeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,4,3,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 01 10010 11101010 00100111 1010 11010111 01101 111010 0101 0101 1010110 11010111 1 111010100 1111 1010101 110010100010011 1100101001110100 10100111 101110111010 101110 1011101 11110101 11010001 010110110 010101 1110 1010 010 110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 31
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, a are repeated.
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- summary of Sea Deep In Darkness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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