This is an analysis of the poem Helplessness that begins with:
I look at a sea - the greedy one and fervent,
Chained to the earth, on the depleted shore…...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba bXbc cdXd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010101110 1001100101 11011001010 1111010101 110010111110 1101010111 1111110111 1111111101 1101110111 110101111 1001010111 1101111011 010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Helplessness;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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