This is an analysis of the poem The Last Day (Excerpt) that begins with:
Sooner or later, in some future date,
(A dreadful secret in the book of Fate)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbXXdeeffggXhddXhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011001101 0101000101 01011110101 1111010111 1111100101 110011111001 1101010101 10110111010 10110101010 0111110001 1011111101 0101110101 1100010101 1100010111 1101010111 0101111001 0101010101 0101011101 0101010101 1101000101 01010101100 1001000101 01010010101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1089
- Average number of words per stanza: 177
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; other is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ye is repeated.
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