This is an analysis of the poem Flight that begins with:
On silver sand where ripples curled
I counted sea-gulls seven;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eaeaefef gdgdbebe heheidid cjdjbegX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 1101110 11010101 1100110 10101101 111101 11011101 011101 11111001 110101 11010101 010101 01110101 010101 11010111 0100101 10010101 110101 10011101 010101 011101101 110001 110010101 111101 10110101 011101 10111101 010001 11110101 110111 11110101 011001 11110101 110101 11010111 111011 110010111 011111 11110101 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; with, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Flight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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