This is an analysis of the poem The Lagoon that begins with:
WE crept through reed-beds wet with dew,
The sun went down in gold;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXcbcXdbdaebeXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 011101 10010100 011111 00110111 010111 01010100 111101 01110111 011111 01110100 100111 11010101 010101 111111000 110101 11010100 010111 11010011 010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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- summary of The Lagoon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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