This is an analysis of the poem The Wrecked Aeroplane that begins with:

Unhappy craft of Daedalus reborn,
That liest prone with white wings torn,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbba ccXddc ddXXdd eeXdde ffbggf hhaihih
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010011 1110111 111101010101 11 1111110101 0101 0101111011 11011001 010101010010 101 111111010001 0101 0101010101 1010101 11010101100 0111 011111010101 1101 01101100101 01010111 0101010100110 1 011101110011 11001 10001010001 11011111 11111111010 101 1100111100101 0101 1101011111 11010111 0111110101 0101 0101011101 11 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the are repeated.

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  • summary of The Wrecked Aeroplane;
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  • history of its creation;
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