This is an analysis of the poem The Hanging Of The Crane that begins with:
The lights are out, and gone are all the guests
That thronging came with merriment and jests ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb Caddca effe X ccfggf hhbbHbb bbcggcX X iibiib bbibiibii jjffbbbbjjkjaakfllccX X jjbggb lbbljjjjjjllfmmfcjjjc c bbfbbf babbajjccaffcXgjXjgjbfbf c hhXjjd haahbbaccaiicnncgffggogbgbo X bbfeef iicffciiiiXihbbbbHXCcgbbggfjffj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,4,1,6,7,7,1,6,9,21,1,6,21,1,6,24,1,6,27,1,6,31,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111111101 1101010011 0101010001 0011000111 11010010111 110101 11001101 10111101 010100101 10111101 111001001 00010101 11010111 10010101 11010101 11010111 1 1111111110 1011011101 11010100001 1101001111 1111000101 110101 11011001 11010111 01010101 01011101 01011101 01111111 11110111 11110101 11010101 11010111 11010101 01010111 11111110 11011100 1 0101110101 0101010001 01011000101 1011001111 01100010101 010101 10110101 11011101 01010101 01111001 01010101 110010101 11010001 11010101 01110101 11010101 01110111 11010101 11001111 11010101 01001101 01010001 11010111 11011111 01010001 01010001 01010001 110010101 11001101 10111111 11111101 110010111 10010011 01110101 11011111 11010110 1 1111000101 0101110101 1101111101 1111010101 1101110101 110101 11111101 01011101 11010101 01010101 01000101 01010101 1101100001 110001010 11001101 01111001 01110101 11010101 11010001 10110101 01010101 11010101 11111101 010010011 11110111 01010101 00011100 1 0101011101 0101010101 1011010101 1111010101 1101000101 1000101 11010101 11010001 1011001 10011101 10011101 01010111 11000100 10011101 11011111 11110111 11101101 10011101 10110000 00011100 01110111 10010101 110111000 10010101 010001001 111001101 11010001 110101011 01011101 11111111 1 0111110011 1001010101 1101011100 0101011101 1001010101 010101 11101001 10010101 010011111 10110101 01010101 11010101 010101001 01010101 111101001 01010111 100100101 00110101 11010001 110001001 11011101 11010001 11010101 01010111 01011101 10110101 11011101 01110001 10110101 01110001 11000101 11010111 11010101 1 1001011111 0101011101 1101010101 1101011111 11010000101 110001 11110101 01010101 01011101 011101011 01010111 00010101 01110011 11110101 01010101 10111101 10010100 01101101 10110001 0101001 10011101 11111001 01000101 01011101 11001101 01010101 01011101 10010101 010101001 011111001 11110101 10010001 01110101 11010111 11110101 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 205
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, one, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, again, i, o are repeated.
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- summary of The Hanging Of The Crane;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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