This is an analysis of the poem The Storm that begins with:
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Against the stone breakwater,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcdeefg dd X gdahfbi XjXXXjabbaf X idXcce XXd Xbageh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,2,1,7,11,1,6,3,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0101110 10110010 1011101 1010010 1001010010100 011010010011001 101111011001 011 110101 10111010 1 0101101010001 01111110 101011001110 01101100001 10011011011 010011010010010 10010010011000010 01011 101101101010110 011001111 010100111010 1010110 1111110 1010101011110110 011101010110 010101010 01101110010010 0111101 1 1101110110 11110 01111100 1001111001 10101101000010 100010010 01010011001011 1010010011001010 10100010 1110101010 1010010 10111001100110 0111010010011 01010101011010 1010110110001011
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we are repeated.
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- summary of The Storm;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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