This is an analysis of the poem The End that begins with:
It is time for me to go, mother; I am going.
When in the paling darkness of the lonely dawn you stretch out...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccdeXXfXcXXeXXdfXXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011101101110 100101000101111 11111000111110001 100101110 1101010010110111 1101000101111111 1101 00101101101011 011100111110010 0101010100011 0110110011011000 111101001101010 10101111110111 101110111 1101011101010001 111110001011111 11111101010010111 1100010 110110001001010 11101011110001000 11101111 110010101010100 011010010101010100 01001110011010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1384
- Average number of words per stanza: 259
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, and, your, in, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines and is repeated).
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