This is an analysis of the poem Off To The Fishing Ground that begins with:

There's a piping wind from a sunrise shore
Blowing over a silver sea,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdcXc eadaXfbf dbXXXgXg ghchecXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010100111 10100101 1010100101 111000 01011101 0010101 101111101 1100101 111111111 1011101 110011100 1110101 011110111 1111111 1011100111 1101001 110110111 01001011 1101001001 0101100 11011111 10101101 11010111 101111 11011101 0110101 110111101 00100101 011101111 0101101 11101100111 11100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Off To The Fishing Ground;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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