This is an analysis of the poem Evanescence that begins with:
You are like a pale purple flower
In the blue spring dusk...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XaXXXX XaXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111011010 001011 1110101 10110 011011 111010 001 010101 1111110 10 1 10 1 0101110 011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Evanescence;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Angelina Weld Grimké
- Analysis of Tenebris
- Analysis of For the Candle Light
- Analysis of When The Green Lies Over The Earth
