This is an analysis of the poem The Gift Of The Sea that begins with:
The dead child lay in the shroud,
And the widow watched beside;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba cdaX aefe fXXX dXAX AXbX ageX hibi gdhd bjAX AcXX aeaX ckbX adad haXa bkak bjaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111001 1010101 1010110101 01001001 1010111 101111001 1010101011 101111010 010101 1010101 111010101 110111 1100111011 10101110 1100111010 111111000 1101001 10111001 11011010011 100111010 1010101 100101001 111010111 1101010 101111011 1111101 11110101 11111010 1101001 0010101 10111001101 1010111 0101001 110101 1100110101 010111 11101011 11101011 11011010011 1010110010 1010101 1010111 1110101001 101001110 111111 0111001 110010111 11011010 111111 010101 1010111111 101011010 1101001 1010110 101011111011 11100101 00100111 1010111 110011111110 11100101 1100001 11001011 1011110111 11100111 10111101 10100111 11001110011 11010010
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, she, it, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, o, there, the are repeated.
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- summary of The Gift Of The Sea;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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