This is an analysis of the poem Day's End that begins with:
The earth has cloaked the folds of the horizon
with its mud-dyed, faded grey anchal...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdefceggfhiaiXXaXjjXajbegkdlmigbcbglXgmmbXknobXXkaggggiga ghiocmbaXXbgginbbakghgbhkb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,26,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110100010 001110110 0110 11 101100111 0110101 11101 10111100001 110010101 10101 00010011 1010101 0110101 11 0010001 011001011 1001110 001100 101010001010 001011011 011011 10110101 01010100 0010101010 101000100100101 11101001 00110 110010101 1100110 0100111 101010 01100110 10011 10010110110 01011 101010101 010111001 0101100111 01110 0101 1110101 1000010101 011010 001000101 111111 10011010 11011100010 1100100110 110001011 10011100 111101010 01110 1101001 1111000111 01111 11101 111111 1011101 10100 101010 110011101 00111 10010100010 11011010 0010011 1011100 10011111 11101101 101010011 11011111 10110100 0111011 111010111010 1111001 01011 10010100 010100 00101 0111100001 101 11011101 01010100 1111001 0101 001010101010 1101 0100101010100010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 902
- Average number of words per stanza: 158
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, door are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines emptiness is repeated).
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- summary of Day's End;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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