This is an analysis of the poem The Last Envoy that begins with:

THIS wind, that through the silent woodland blows,
O'er rippling corn and dreaming pastures goes ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXa bbcb ddXd eXde ffff ccbc aXfX ddXd aaaa ffXf Xaaea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010111 101001110101 10010101001 10010101001 1001010111 1111010101 100010001001 1101010001 10011000111 01001110101 1101011101 0101010001 1011010111 1011001100 1011011111 1111000101 1111110101 0101111101 1100110101 1111111101 1101010111 1101110111 1011011101 010000101011 1101111111 1101010111 1111010111 0100011110 0111111111 0111111111 0101111101 1011110101 01010101010 01011111010 0011010101 10100101010 1111010111 11010101001 1101110101 0001110111 1011101111 1001010001 0101010111 1001010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; your, my, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

    The author used the same words you, to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Last Envoy;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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