This is an analysis of the poem Sunset that begins with:
WHAT horror lurked within the First Man's brain
As downward to the West the Sun-god stepped, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacXdcXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010111 1100010111 1101011111 1100011111 1111110111 1101010111 1100010101 00111110101 1111110101 01011100001 0101100101 1101110110 01011101010 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 661
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Sunset;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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