This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of The Year that begins with:

Ere yet upon the unhappy Arctic lands,
In dying autumn, Erebus descends...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXcdXXaceebceXaffdeXXfcaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010010101 0101010001 00110100101 0001010100 1011100101 11111001010 0110010100 0100011111 0101011101 1101101100 0111000100 0101001001 1101011101 11010110011 01010101110 1001110111 0110110101 0111110111 0011110100 1111010101 0101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1001010101 01010101010 0001011100 1101010101 1001100101 010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 201
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of are repeated.

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  • summary of The Death Of The Year;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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