This is an analysis of the poem Waikiki that begins with:
Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree
Drift down the darkness. Plangent, hidden from eyes... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcabba ddddca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011010111 11010101001 1111000111 11010111010 11110111101 1101011111 1111000101 1001001101 1101110101 110100111111 1101010011 0111101111 1011010100 0111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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 word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Waikiki;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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