This is an analysis of the poem Sestina that begins with:
September rain falls on the house.
In the failing light, the old grandmother...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdef faebdc cfdabe ecbfad deacfb bdfecaXeda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 0010101110 10010001 01010101 100100101 101100101 111010001 10111101001 010110101 110100110 010101101 111111001 01111101 0100100111 11110111 010111101 10101110 11010101 101110101 101100101 100101110 101110111 110111101 1101111001 010010101 1111110101 0110110101 101011101 100101011 1101000110 110010110 10010101 01011111 00101000101 00010101 11001001001 101110101 01101001001 101101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 39
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hovers is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tears, child, almanac, stove, grandmother are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word house at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Sestina;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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