This is an analysis of the poem The Last Song Of Sappho that begins with:
Thou tranquil night, and thou, O gentle ray
Of the declining moon; and thou, that o'er...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXebfdXfaagXhh idfbhjXiadffkfdfii lmlkdmjdfeXgifaknn dXilnachXkkakehkkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,18,18,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111101 00010111110 0110010101 0100011110 1101001111 0101011111 1101110101 1101010101 110111001001 0101110101 1101010101 010011001011 0111010101 1111011101 0101010101 0111010101 1101110101 0101010101 11001111001 1111010111 0101010001 1101010101 0111110101 0101010101 01110101000 1111010101 0111111111 11001011101 0111011011 11001010100 1101010101 0101010101 11010010101 0101010101 0101011001 11110101001 1101110011 111001100111 11011010111 0111010101 1101011100 1101000101 0111010110 0100010101 0101100111 01001010101 1101110100 0101010101 1101010101 11010101000 0101110101 1010101010101 1101011111 0101100101 1101010111 1111010101 0111010101 0101010001 1101110111 1101110111 010101000010 1110110101 11100010011 1001110101 1111011111 01001010101 1101011101 0101010101 1111010101 0101011101 1001010001 01001011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 768
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, of, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The Last Song Of Sappho;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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