This is an analysis of the poem The View that begins with:
For Derek Walcott
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXXXXacddabaXadca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010 000101110101 010101110101 01101010100 100101011111 11101001001000 010011111001100 101001001101 101010100101 01010100100110 0010101110111111 010101111 010101111010 0101010110010110 0110011000100100 1001001111010 1101110010101 010010111001111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 474
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of are repeated.
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- summary of The View;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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