This is an analysis of the poem Penumbra that begins with:

As I sit here in the quiet Summer night,
Suddenly, from the distant road, there comes ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdefgbX aXecgehXbifb cgibjbbkkbb hehbbj abdXhbji
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,12,11,6,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110010101 1000010111 0111010101 101101 110110 1010111010011 1101111 00110010 1011111 01011111010 10100101 11011 10001111 10111 0011100 100010111 11 10111010 11111011010 11011100011 111 10010101 0110101 011111110010 011111111 1010101 110101111 01101101011 110111011100 0011101101 11111 110101010 111110101 011011 1111 0111011 1111011110 111 0010011 1011110101 10000101 1101010 11110101 1110111001 10110101010 1011111 10110101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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 is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Penumbra;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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