This is an analysis of the poem Drowned that begins with:
ONLY eighteen winters old !
Lay her with a tender hand... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bccb deed bffb bggb haah cbbX haah ijji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101 1000101 10100111 1111111 1110111 1010111 0110101 1011001 1110101 1010101 10011101 1110101 1110111 10100101 1011001 1011111 1010111 1111101 1010101 1010101 1011001 1010011 1010111 1111101 1110110 1011101 1110111 1110110 11100111 1110101 100010111 1011111 1010111 1111111 1111111 1100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; her, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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- summary of Drowned;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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