This is an analysis of the poem Letter From Under The Sea that begins with:
If you are my friend...
Help me...to leave you...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbdae cFgFha iXdd jedhgbbbgi bafiXcjjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,4,10,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111 11011 1011110 110110101 011 1010010101111 0110111 111101 1010101110010 11 10101011001 11 1111001 11101101 01110 11001 010100010 1101100101100010 0111 1010010 1111101 0110011 11001 1 1 1010101 11110100 01011 011101 1111 1111010001 1011 11101010 1110 10 10
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, would, teach, me, from, this, atheism, my, drowning are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, blue, drowning are repeated.
The author used the same word if 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 atheism, blue, drowning are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases blue, drowning connect the lines.
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- summary of Letter From Under The Sea;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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