This is an analysis of the poem A Stave At Parting that begins with:
Good-night! the horn's faint music
Through the twilight fades away:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXcbc ddXdbcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110 1011101 0111110 10011111 111001110 0100101 1101110 1010111 01110011 10101001 1111110 110101 0111010 0100111 101101111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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 and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word done at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of A Stave At Parting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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