This is an analysis of the poem The Last Man that begins with:
I dreamed that Gabriel took his horn
On Resurrection's fateful morn,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXaaccdddddaaeeffgghhiihXjjkkeeaallffhhllXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100101 11000101 11001101 11111111 01010001 10110101 11111011 11011101 01110101 01010101 11010101 11010101 11110101 01010101 10111101 011100111 01001101 11111101 101110101 11011101 01110101 11011101 11010111 01111101 11100001 11110101 01110101 11000111 11011101 11010111 111111110 01011001 01000101 01010101 110100101 01110111 11010101 11100101 011100111 11110101 01010011 11010111 10101101 01011101 01010101 11110111 11011101 11011101 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1688
- Average number of words per stanza: 314
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; blew, of, they, one's, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words at, why are repeated.
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- summary of The Last Man;
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