This is an analysis of the poem Author's Prologue that begins with:
This day winding down now
At God speeded summer's end...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcddefXgdgcfdggghcibXjjecbggfcXedakdacbedkklgXXmnggnmlbXlkkgebcadkadXhcXXgXcXjjXXichdggdbcgdglfeddcBa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 102,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011 1110101 0010101 011001 101101 1001011 11111 101101 110111 01101 1101011 11111 100111 00111 1100101 1011011 11101 0101001 001001 1111001 000101 110111 11111 011011 00101101 010010 01101 11111 1011001 10111 1101111 1011 0001001 10010111 101111 11011111 01001 1101 110101 1010011 1111111 111001 0101011 1111001 001011 10101 100100 0111100 10110001 100101 11101 01011 110101 11101111 0100111 0101011 10111 111011 0010101 0111001 110011 11011001 100101 110001 0101 01110101 111111 1011 11011111 1011111 0101011 1011001 110010 11001110 1111001 10010 111011 101010100 101101 010111 110101 11001010 11101011 111011 1010001 011111 100111 011101 111011 111100101 1011011 100101 11000101 010101 101111 11010101 101101001 0111101 11111 111001 1110101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2853
- Average number of words per stanza: 516
- Amount of lines: 102
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, the are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Author's Prologue;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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