This is an analysis of the poem A Lesson for This Sunday that begins with:
The growing idleness of summer grass
With its frail kites of furious butterflies...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbXbXb bbccXbbcbaXddeXXececcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,22,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101000101 00110100101 0101010101 0101011101 11001101010 111010111 01101100100 11110000101 1111011101 0111010101 1111000101 1011000101 10110010000 0101010011 1111010101 11001010010 0100010101 110001100010 0101010101 10110010101 10010101001 11010001101 1111111101 0111010101 10110001101 01000100101 1101010101 0111011101 11011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 411
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
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- summary of A Lesson for This Sunday;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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