This is an analysis of the poem The Otter that begins with:
When you plunged
The light of Tuscany wavered...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabX bcXX cXXa XXXd dXXe ffefXedec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 01010010 11101 01010 111111101 11101110 100110001 01110011 111101011 10011 0101000111 111010 11101100 11111 11111 10101110 1111110 1111001 100100 0010010 1001111 1101101 11001 1001111 110011 10101110 1011001101 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines water is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Otter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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