This is an analysis of the poem The Depths that begins with:
Sublime and wonderful art thou, O deep,
Illustrious ocean, vast unmeasured waste!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXacbdeeb fghXgXb bXiihhhieij XXeXXcdfjjb hhXkhbahikabbd ebahbeiXXXchd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,11,11,14,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111001111 010010110001 1011010111 10101010111 1111110101 1101010101 1101010101 1011110111 0111000101 1111011111 1111110101 1011011101 1101010101 11011001001 11111100111 1011010101 1101011101 10110001111 1001000101 0101010010 1011111101 1111010101 1011010101 1011001101 11010101011 1111011101 10011100101 0111001101 1001010001 11011101010 1111011101 0101111101 10110001101 11010111000 1101110101 0101001101 1101010111 1011010101 1111011101 001100101011 1101000101 1101110101 1111111100 1001011011 0101001101 1101110011 1101110101 0101011101 1101110001 1101010101 0101011111 1101010101 1111010101 0011011101 11001010101 1101111101 1011111111 0101001101 0101110101 0101010101 1101011101 1011000111 1101111101 11011100100 01100100101 1101010101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 492
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, and, this, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, that, to, so are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Depths;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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