This is an analysis of the poem Where The Sun Rises And Where It Sets that begins with:

Once, when returning from far Transylvania
Through mountain forests, rocks, and Carpathian ridges,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXbdefX XgdXXhXbgijjekkX cfhb aXiXgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,16,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010011010 110101110010 1010110101 10101110101 11011111 1100101101010 011110100111 1101100110011 1111000011 011001110 11111101 11110101110 1101011010 011110101010 110101101 110101100010 0010111111 1111100100001 1110011110101 00111100010 111101001010 1111111111 1100100010 001111110 01011101 011001101 100111001 0101011101 1111101 11110001010 1110110001011 1111 00110101 01001 0101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; i, have are repeated.

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  • summary of Where The Sun Rises And Where It Sets;
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  • history of its creation;
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