This is an analysis of the poem Flotsam that begins with:
Crass rays streaming from the vestibules;
Cafes glittering like jeweled teeth;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbXXcdXdebabbcbfgbgbbhfffijkbffhiiejclklcicdbakbX dXXlcgljXbhfbhdXXhbhfXjcXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 51,27,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001000 1110011001 111 101010001 101 10010000 010101 10011 101001 101011 00111 110001 100101101 10111 110010101 1101 11010 110010101 10010 10101010 011101011100 1001010110 11010111 1010010 10001 0101 101101 1101111 0101000110 01011 1000110 1101001 0111 1101010 0110001 11010101 11001101 100110001 0110101 111101 1011001 101110011 1011011 101101010 1011 011111 0110111010 1110101 1011100101 11001001011 1 01011 10 01101 01011 10100 1110 001010 010011 1011 1001001010 1011110 10111010101 10001100101 10 101101 10100 1011100 111001010 11111 111110 110001 11011 0111 10010110 1101100 1011 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1152
- Average number of words per stanza: 186
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, her are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wind is repeated).
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- summary of Flotsam;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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