This is an analysis of the poem The Driftwood Gatherers that begins with:
Along the deep shelve of the abandoned shore
Bowed, with slow pace and careful eyes that keep... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaacbcdeeeXef aXaghahfaa hhihhijggjkckllciijdkdkhmhm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,10,27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011000101 1011110111 011101111 01100010101 010011 0111010101 01011101 110101 0101011101 01001110101 01010101001 1011011001 0101111100 111101 0101110111 010010011 101010111000 0110111101 0101100101 11011011001 10010011101 0101010101 1001010101 10010010111 10110100101 1111010101 1101100111 1101110111 11011000101 1111011 0111110101 11011111010 10111001001 01111100101 01010100010 01110100101 1001010101 0101010011 10110100101 1101011101 110101 1111010101 1011010001 11110101010 1101110111 1101000101 1100010111 1000011111 1011011111 1101010101 0101011111 1111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 730
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Driftwood Gatherers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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