This is an analysis of the poem A Meeting that begins with:
When all the splendour wanes
Like a slow sunset from the changeful leaves,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcccXaaacaaaXadca ceaaeeaaXdadffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 10111001001 101101 010111 0101110111 1101011111 110111 01111100111 110101 110101101001 1101111101 1001010101 010101 1001010011 1111110101 0101011101 011101 0101010101 1001010101 1011 1111110101 1001000101 1101010 011101 010101 0101110100 1101 100111 01001110001 1111000101 1111 1001110101 1101010011 0111010101 111101 1011010101 1111 11110100100 1111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 679
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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 is repeated.
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- summary of A Meeting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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