This is an analysis of the poem Gulliver that begins with:
Over your body the clouds go
High, high and icily...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb cdd aXa eba ddf aXf eXdXccf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110011 111100 10101101 10101110100 011 101010 011 01101 1111011 11111 1001 0101111 1011011010 11 1101 1111 110001001101110 1111101100 01111010 11 1110111100 10100100100 1010110 011001101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; you, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, step are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of Gulliver;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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