This is an analysis of the poem The Iceberg that begins with:
I was spawned from the glacier,
A thousand miles due north... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcadeaf bdghijd cfjjcbhbkffg djhffdjllmkXjlml djdnnejXhjmhj fXjjnjejheodgjhj eeeXeddeakkXXmemccfjkjdif kXdipqj pfpXhmrdnrmjepjm fqdddjddjhbbdddhjmcjmeb jckjdjXpkkhnkn keXpnlfXeolmeoh enraahaceecjacdk cecdbnmimXmdlbblmf lcXcXkjk fjfjjXbpffgfjddfi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,12,16,13,16,25,7,16,23,14,15,16,18,8,25,16,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010 0101011 01110 1010 1111001110 011101 10110100101 01001110 1101000101 011111 010011 10101010100 10011000101 11010101 1 110100101010101 1001010 0010101 010111 1101 01011110 111100100101 11010101 111100101 11110101 1001 10011100011 10011001000 1101 0111011001001 1111000101 111101 0011010111 11000101 10101011 0101010101 11110111 110111 10110101 110100100 11 11011101 10010001 100101 111101 0100010101 0111110001 110101 1001 100110010001 10010101 1001111001 111111001 1011 111100100101 0101100 11010100101 11011 1101010110 0111 01010010111 1101110 11101 10011100111 010010111 10011 0111 0100101 100111 11110111010 1101100111 01111101 100111001001 111101101101 10011 010101 1101001110000 01001101 110111 0101 1101010101 0111010 1010101 010101010101 11111111 1100111000 1111111101 011101 1101010101 11 11 0111010101 010111101001 1111 111111 011101 111111 1101110101 1011 1111001 11010011101 010101 1101100001 010100101 10001010100 1000100 0011000101 010100 011000 1101000101 110101 11011001001 1100111 010111 11110101 1101010111 100101 111101 1101010111 01111101010 10010101 1111 1111 1111 1001 11110001 1001110 101111 1101 101001101 11011100111 101100100101 0100010001 1101 0111001 10011101 0111010101 10110101 0100100111 0100110 110101 10010101 11010 110001 1111 0101010 1111 101111 1011110 0111010111 110110 0111101010100 110101 0101110001 0101011 111000101 11 11001100001 01 0101010101 01101110 11011101 11001001 1111011101 10011 11010111010 1001110111 10111100111 1001110111 1001110 11001101010 1111 111100101 1111010 11110101011 1111 1011010 1011110 1101010101 11010101010 01010101010 1001001101 0100111 1101010 1001 11110 100 111101 1111011101 1101010 110101 0101010 011101 10110010101 11001111010 0101010 1111001 1001001 1101111110 01010111 110011101 11 110111 1011010101 0111111111 01010010001 11010101011 101 11010 110101 01010 100111001 1101110111 101100100001 0100010101 1101 11001001 0111010111 11110101 100011 1111 0111010001 011101 010101 0101 0101100100 1111010111 01110 00010100101 1101 11001110101 11001110101 01110101111 01010001 0111011101 110101 101000111 1111110011 111111 1111100101 0101 101011 011100111 0101 101000 0101101 1101 1011000101 010101 1111000 1101010101 1111001101 01001 1101110111 1111001 010101 1101 01010101 11110101101 1111010001 010100 010101 1111110001 11010001101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 502
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 274
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; crawling, of, and, her, how, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words only, and, of, slowly, my, i are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase waited connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Iceberg;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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