This is an analysis of the poem Ode To The Setting Sun that begins with:
Alpha and Omega, sadness and mirth,
The springing music, and its wasting breath--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabccddXcbbeXcdXXfddffgdXXhhh gaggafidijjfikXdgllgmXdnnd iieckkXoiioooiieffc oXdodXggfggpfpolcffe dhhecdXfiieiXe olakkaigfgfddippiffhflhXiiXhnqnqXepggppphiih gXgcdqdqccidmmidmmhhdXpllp iirffXrfhbbXggcccjbjbXeecidXi iccisgsgbiiddbggXaaaceffffXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,26,19,20,14,44,26,29,29,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1010101011 0101010101 0101011111 1011010101 10010101000 0101010001 1101001 0001011101 0001011101 0101011110 0011111101 1111011011 1111010100 11110100100 1001000100 11001011101 11010100101 111101100 1101010011 111101 1111010111 11111100101 1101010101 1011001 01010101101 1111110101 1101101101 0111011111 01011100111 110101 0010011010111 11110111101 11010111001 0111011101 100100 1001010101 1100111 11001010101 1111011001 010101 1101111111 1000110101 1011000101 010100100101 11010101001 011110 10111101101 1101011101 1100111011 1001000101 11001011101 100101 110011 1001010101 0101001 111101 11011000101 1101011101 110111 11011010100 1111011 1111000111 11010101101 10101100 11010 0101101 011101 10110 110110010 1011110110010 111011 110101 1101011100 100101 110101 10010110101 111100111110 1100111100 0111011101 10010111010 11000010111 0101011100 110010010001 1111001101 0101110101 11001110101 10110011001 1001010011 1001000101 10001010101 111010 110001 1101110011 010100 110011 1101001100 1101000101 11011100111 110101 0111100100 11010010101 10101000101 101111 0011111111 1100101 110101 0101010100 010101 010101 1011010100 11001110110 110101 1001001 10011110010 10010010010 11101001 001011 1100101 1110100101 100100101 1101101 110101 1100001 0101100101 100101 111111 01001000101 110101 1010101 100010100011 101100 1001110101 11010010101 1011110110 010111 110101 10010011000 1001010011 1110110101 1110110001 100010011001 0011110101 1101000 1111010 1011010101 1101010101 1101111001 1101100101 111101 1010111 1001001011 110101 0101001 0111110101 1111001011 1100110100 1101101101 0111010101 1101010111 0111110101 1111010111 1010101001001 1001101 111101 01110011111 101100101001 100110101 01110010111 0111011011 010101 1111110011 01011101101 0101010101 11010101101 110101 110110 1111010101 111111 111101 1111011110 0111101111 1101010111 01010101001 1101011101 1101110101 101101100 11011011010 100010011100 101110000101 0101110001 10110110001 1011000 0101111101 1111000101 1111110101 1111110101 1101001101 0111100101 1101010111 1110110011 010100101101 110100 1111010100 010100 010101 1101010001 111111 1001100 1111011111 000101 110101 110101 1010101 11101110 11100010 11101010 11101110 1101010100 1111010101 011101 1011011101 111101 11001010011 11011101010 11110101010 1101111000 01110101 1110010101 1110010101 0001010101 0101110100 0111010101 1101011101 1101011101 110100 1101010110 11110100011 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1015
- Average number of words per stanza: 183
- Amount of lines: 238
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, that, thy, who, her, of, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, it, thy, thou, who, and, even, till are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eternity is repeated).
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