This is an analysis of the poem Security that begins with:
There once was a limpet puffed with pride
Who said to the ribald sea:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdedX cbbbfadX eXcXXXab ghehXaba gXgXfdad XecXbaca XbabdXdX Xababcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101 1100101 1000111001 0011101 0010111111 011111 111100111 1011110 11011101 1011111 10100111001 111101 1110100101 1100111 110110101 1111111100 10101010101 10101010 101010110101 11101010 1000101010100 10101110 11011101 1110101 111100101 1010111 1010100101 10101001 1110100101 1110101 1110110111 1010101 111100101 1010111 010010101 1110101 010011101 1100101 1010100101 11000101 1100111101 1110101 1010100101 11101010 1010010101 11100101 111100101 1100101 11111101 1111001 1010110101 1010101 10111101 1100111 1011111101 01111100 111110101 1101001 1110100101 10101101 100010110 011101 110100101 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; to, me, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it's, looked, that are repeated.
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- summary of Security;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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