This is an analysis of the poem Atlantis that begins with:

1. FAITH
“I’ve been having these...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcd efc bgf cfb chi bjk kfc ech iec ccc dlm mln mjb bcm hke lhoj pae bec fck nld lbh bkm fbc c q cd cb eg hm bn rk eX kc eg sb cd aj gl nc bm nX ht cq je ec gg jf ej en cf nd nd d deeh cdcg glbb blbm jsen ehne indb gmgg mgbr rubh dsnc f cd dh Xc dh m
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,9,9,9,4,5,9,9,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 10101 1011010100 10101 010001 10110110101 001110010 101001110 10011011 10110101 0100101 1101011111 11111 100111110010 01010110 11011111 1111110 111011 1001111101 101011111 00010011 1101010101 110011 11100010 11010 11100001 1000001 1101011 0111001 01101101010 11010100 1101010 1101001011 11110110 1010110 01010100 01011111 1101001010 111111 10001010101 11101 11111001 11101010 1001010 101111 1111100101 11101 111010 1101 101 1011 11001 1011110 11011 10001 1011011 10101 110010 1100111101 11111101 101111 001001 1011110110010 0111111 110111010 1111111 110101 11010 11110010101 1101111101 11101 11111110001 101 11001 110101 101101001 11110 0101010 110111 110010001010 10101010 01011101 1001000111 11011101111 11010011 1010111101 1111101100 111111101 11101 11110101 01110101010 1111111100 111111010 001011111 11101111 110101 110101 11110 1011011 11001101001 111101 1101001011 0101010 11101111 1110001 110010 110101001 10101101 110001 010111011 11001011 1110101101 1011010001 01010101110 10010011111 11010111 10101101 0101011111 0010111011 10111 11101111101 1110 0110010 101111 101010101 1011 011001 1101 10101101 111010101 0101111 001011010 111111111 00101110101 01010101 100111110 0011010010 0100110 110111 101110111 10011101 10001010 111001110 1110010110 11001010101 10101100110 01011010 1100111 0110111 1101110 11100100 1111111 101100111 001101000 01011110101 101011111 1010110101 0110111010 01110110 10010101 111010110 11010 11100 1110110101 0010101001 1001011010 01101011 11101010 110101001 1011010110 111011101 1100010010 1010 1111001010 010010010101 11101001 1111010 1011101 1100101 0101000100 1111000 0101110 0101001 011010001 01011001 101010110 1101111 010101011 11101001 1101001 01001010101001 11111110 1010110110 00101110 110011110 10100110001 101011101 00110110100 100010010 10101101111 1101001 10110100 1010100 01010 1010101 10110 011110 001101 010101001 1101001101 1001111001 110001010 1111100 1100011 1011 10001001 110010111 010001110100 101 110 11010101 11010 11011 0010100 00111 00110 01011 11111 101 111111 0101001 001110 10101 11001 1011 0101 11010 10110100 01100100 001 01100010 010001 101010 101001 01011010 10101 001011 0111 110011 101 111 10110 1110 11010 1011 0101 110 110 111010 1101 111010 10110 1001 1101 11001 1011 101 11011 0011 1001001 10101 111 1110 101001 011101 1010010 111 1001 10111 11111 1100101 110101 11011 010110 001011 1110111 111100 111111 110010 10111 01101 100010 1101010 0111 1000100 111 011110 1101 11100 001001 00111 101110 101111 01110 011011 1111 10101 1110101 10100 010110 01011 1111 101 10010 01110 1010 10101 001101 101010 0101010 0010010 010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 110
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 327
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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, s, i, his, how, thought, holding are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, that, we, he, and, i, wants, some are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, i, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nothing, dream, arms are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word dream at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Atlantis;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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