This is an analysis of the poem An Ending that begins with:
I will go my ways from the city, and then, maybe,
My heart shall forget one woman's voice, and her lips;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc XcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011100101110 111011101101 10011111001 011011001001 010110100111 01011111001111 01111101011101 0101110011101 100100111101 01101110111111 101100101011 1110110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my, i, to are repeated.
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