This is an analysis of the poem The Afternoon Sun that begins with:

This room, how well I know it.
Now they're renting it, and the one next to it,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbbXabcabDbbDadXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111110 11100101100 1100011101 11010110101100 01101000 0111101 010100100 1101011010 10111000110010 0010010111 1011101 0101001 11111101 11100111111 0101001 01011101100 1101110111010 1011011 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 734
  • Average number of words per stanza: 135
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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  • summary of The Afternoon Sun;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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