This is an analysis of the poem Evensong that begins with:
The sun has set; grey shadows darken slowly
The rose-red cloud-hills that were bathed in light.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XeXe efXf ghgh idid jbjb egegakak
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111111010 0111110101 11010101110 110101 11111101010 10101110101 01111101010 101101 1111011110 11000101111 1101110111 110111 11110101010 1011010111 101111101100 100111 100110011010 111101011 010101001010 110011 11110111010 10110110011 11110111110 110111 11010101010 1101000111 11111101010 111101 11111100110 1111000111 110011111110 110101 11111101110 1111110101 11010011010 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; for is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Evensong;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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