This is an analysis of the poem The Raft that begins with:
The whole world on a raft! A King is here,
The record of his grandeur but a smear.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccbb aXddddeea addff ddggccbb hhcciibbbb ggccbbee XcdcgiXX ccbbccchc bbXX bbeeiihh DdjDcej
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,5,8,10,8,8,9,4,8,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111010101 0010001101 0001011111 1101010101 11110101100 1111111101 011101101011 1111010101 1111011111 0101010111 0111010101 1101110101 1011010101 0110001101 1111110101 0001010101 0111011101 0101011101 0101010101 0111011101 1101010101 0111000101 0101010101 0101010111 1111010101 0101010101 0101111101 0101010101 1111111101 0101010001 1111110101 10101110101 1111011111 1111000111 0111010101 1111010101 00101010101 1111010111 1111011111 0101011101 0111011111 1111010101 0101010101 0100110001 1110011101 1101010101 0111011101 0001010101 10011110101 1101110101 010010 1010101 11011101 10001 10010100 010101 10101010 1111100 1100010101 1101110111 1101011101 1101010001 0100110101 1101010101 11 01110 111 1101110001 0100100101 0101001101 0111010111 1101001101 0111011101 1111010001 0101010101 1001001101 0001011111 1001011111 1101101101 1110101 1011011 11010111 1110101 111010111 1111 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; his, and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, with, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Raft;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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