This is an analysis of the poem Under The Raging Water that begins with:
Overnight fixes,
Done with an accustomed quickness......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXbbbX X c X Xca XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,1,1,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 10101010 0110010101 0101010100010 10101 1010001101001 1010110011 11010111 110100111 111 1001010 1 1111 101011111001 1111011 10010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 Under The Raging Water;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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