This is an analysis of the poem The Mercy that begins with:
The ship that took my mother to Ellis Island
Eighty-three years ago was named "The Mercy." ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdeaeXdfgXgafhgXXiXggfXXgjXbjgcheiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111001010 101001111100 101010010010 0111001100110 0010011010 11001110110 00111011001 1000010010010110 01101001100 00110101111 110111011111 01101010010 001011010110 0101000111 011100110101 110101101010 011111110001 1111010100 11010101011 01100111110 1100111010010001 11100100100110 11111011 110101010100 100010101101 011000101111000 100110100010 01111100101 101001101001 010100101 1010101010 10000100111 11110111110 111101111110 11110010111 01101101110 11111001001 01111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1796
- Average number of words per stanza: 309
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; her, and, as are repeated.
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- summary of The Mercy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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