This is an analysis of the poem Afternoon In School The Last Lesson that begins with:
When will the bell ring, and end this weariness?
How long have they tugged the leash, and strained apart... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaababcXcX Xcdcadaeecdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011110100 11111011101 11001011101 00110100101101 111011011 1111010101 0011111010111 0100010101011 01001111101 11111011101 0101010100 1111 01110110111 111101010001 11001001101 01010100101 10111101010 1110101001101 11101010010011 1110101101 101111110111 01101110 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 515
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, not, for, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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