This is an analysis of the poem The Summing Up that begins with:
When you have sailed the seven seas
And looped the ends of earth,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eeeefdfd egegXeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 110101 111111001 010101 01010001 010101 11110111 110111 11111001 110101 01000101 110101 110101010 110001 010011010 110001 11110101 110111 01110101 110001 11010100 010101 01000100 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, with are repeated.
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- summary of The Summing Up;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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