This is an analysis of the poem I Explain that begins with:
I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night,
The sweep of each sad lost wave, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXaXcCDXbcCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101001000111 0101111 01001001110 0101001001 01110010101 10100011 101011010 10110011 1110100 01011101 110011010 10110011 1110100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word loneliness at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of I Explain;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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