This is an analysis of the poem Unknown Shores that begins with:
Okay, my starsick beauty! -
blue jeans and tilting breasts,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXB cXdXXc dcdb dXbXXX dB cdaacc Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,6,2,6,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 111101 101000 111101 111111 11011 0100010 1101010 010100 110100 110101 100101 11101 010111 110111 100101 1101001 110101 010101 10100 111101 111101 110111 110101 111101 011111 110111 00101 111101 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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- summary of Unknown Shores;
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