This is an analysis of the poem In The Forum that begins with:
The last warm gleams of sunset fade
From cypress spire and stonepine dome,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea fXfg gbgb gggg fefe bcbc hXha gXgg ehih XbXb cacX jkjX ihiX hXhl egeg aiai aeae kgkX gjgjXllll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110111 010111001 100101001 100110101 10010101 01110111 01010001 01110101 100100111 10011101 1100100101 11011111 01111101 010100101 010111001 10010111 11011101 100101 110110111 10111101 01010111 01110011 01011101 11010101 01001101 01010101 110100101 10010101 01010111 11010111 11110001 10100100 01011101 110111110 01110101 10110101 101010101 110101010 11011101 11011101 010101001 010101001 110101110 11010101 110101010 11111101 100101100 11010101 11010111 010101111 10011001 110111100 01011101 110010101 11110111 11010100 111101010 01011111 1101010010 01110100 01110101 010011101 10110111 0010010001 11000101 01100111 11110101 100011101 11111111 111101110 01010101 111101110 11110101 10010101 11110101 11011101 11010111 01010101 01011101 011101110 11111111 11010101 10010101 1000100 11110101 100101001 10110001 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, still, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of In The Forum;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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