This is an analysis of the poem My Last Dance that begins with:
The shell of objects inwardly consumed
Will stand, till some convulsive wind awakes; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXcdceaaabfbfcdXX Xaca ceXe bgXg XeXe Xcgc bbeb cXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010001 01110101100 11110010101 1011010111 1101011101 1101010001 010101011 10110010100 1101011111 0111010101 10010010101 1101010101 1101100111 1101001001 10111100101 1111010101 1101011101 1101010011 1111010001 10011111011 1101010101 1101010101 1101010001 1001110101 1101110011 0101110001 1101000101 00010010001 11001001010 01110111001 1101010111 0111110111 11110010001 10011010011 11110100100 1100010011 1101011111 1111010101 1110110101 1101010011 10110101001 1101010101 11001110101 1101010101 1101111101 1101110100 1101000101 11011101011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, that, my are repeated.
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- summary of My Last Dance;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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