This is an analysis of the poem The Fisher that begins with:
ALL night a noise of leaping fish
Went round the bay,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXefcXcXgagcgggdhghdbXbgcgcXdfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 1101 11110101 110111 010011101 1101 10011001 110101 011101010 0101 01111111 010111 11011101 0101 11011101 110111 11110101 0101 11011101 010101 1111001001 0101 11110001 011111 01010101 1101 11011111 010101 11001101 1111 11010111 010111 11110111 1101 110110010 1101000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1090
- Average number of words per stanza: 194
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Fisher;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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