This is an analysis of the poem The Last Coach that begins with:
Before her mirror in a pouting mood,
Afraid to weep lest anger should revoke...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacadXdXcXcX cecedfdXcfcXcaca adadXcXcccXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101000101 0101110101 0101100101 1111011101 0111010101 1111000101 1001010101 1101010101 10110010001 1111110111 11010111111 1101111101 0101110101 0101110101 0100110001 1001011101 1101101101 1111011101 0100111101 1101110101 1111110111 1101010111 1101110101 1101110101 1101100111 1001110101 0111010011 1111110110 0101100101 0101011001 1110111101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1111010101 0111010001 1101011011 0101110101 11110101000 1111001101 1101110101 0101110001 11001110001 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 649
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, her are repeated.
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- summary of The Last Coach;
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