This is an analysis of the poem A Lancashire Sunset that begins with:
It is the close of day:
Over the hill and town...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaacbbcdaaX XXaaaeffeccXgbbggghhhdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,23,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000101 100111 0111 1001110101 1101110101 001101 1101011111 1101 1111 1101011101 1011111101 111101 100111 11010101000 110111 10101 010101 1111011101 1011100111001 1100101110101 101101 100100101001 1111001 111111001001 1111111011 1110101000 1100110 010111 0111 110111 1111 1101 11111011 11010111001 10110101000 1111111111 1110101000
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 37
- 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, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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