This is an analysis of the poem The India Wharf that begins with:

Here in the velvet stillness
The wide sown fields fall to the faint horizon, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc defcagXbfcfeXg X gdXbX Xfffc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,14,1,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010 01111001010 10011 010111001010 010010 111110101 100110010 110010101 1011 110101010010 1100110 01001010011101 1111 1110111010 10101 110101010011110 11010 1101111 0111110 11110101110 10111011111 1101010101 1100111111 1111111101 110111 0101011101 1100 0100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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  • summary of The India Wharf;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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