This is an analysis of the poem Difference that begins with:
My mind’s a map. A mad sea-captain drew it
Under a flowing moon until he knew it; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeedbd aabbffbbdbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010111010 10010101110 1011010111 11110101001 1101011101 1001110101 0111010111 1101010111 0101011001 0101010111 0101010111 01010100 11 1101011101 01011100001 0100110111 0111110111 1011010101 01011100101 1011011101 1101010001 0101110101 0101010 111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 481
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; here, country are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here, a are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of Difference;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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