This is an analysis of the poem The Ancients Of The World that begins with:

The salmon lying in the depths of Llyn Llifon
Secretly as a thought in a dark mind,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb XcXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010100010110 1001010011 01111010110 1101010101 01010001010 100101100101 01111010110 1101110101 011010101010 1111100101 11111010110 101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Ancients Of The World;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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