This is an analysis of the poem Belle Isle, 1949 that begins with:

We stripped in the first warm spring night
and ran down into the Detroit River...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcbdcecfgahhXdfaXcgfche
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011011 1110000110 00101001 0111110100 10110101010 1010010111 110101101 11111011 1011101010 0100001010101 11010110 0101011101 1010100101 010011101 0011100100 10110111011 10011111 11111101 1010101101 01111110110 1001110 001111101 1101101 110111010 0111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 947
  • Average number of words per stanza: 177
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Belle Isle, 1949;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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