This is an analysis of the poem The Coromandel Fishers that begins with:

Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110101001100101 0110100100110111111 111101100111101001 010010100111101001 1100111100100100111 0101100101100111111 111110100110100111 111011010100111 100100100110100101 11101101101001001011 1101100100110100111 110100100110111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 78 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 16
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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