This is an analysis of the poem Island that begins with:
Unsuitable for song as well as sense
the island flowers into slums ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXXbafbdXfaeXfdcbaddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100111111 01010001 1110010 01001011 111011100 011111 11011110 1101010 0111001 1010100010 111010 101010 101010010 1010101 1110100100 101010101 100101 100101010 1101010 1111101 101010100 10101010 10010010 100101 101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 770
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Island;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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