This is an analysis of the poem The Ancestors that begins with:
When the night's coming and the last light falls
A weak child among lost shadows on the floor,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacdbcddXeXdeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011010111 01101111101 0011001101 0111011001 1100010101 1001100101 01000100010 11001101001 0101010011 0101010111 1011010100 0111010101 0100010101 1101010101 1011111101 0001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 675
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Ancestors;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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