This is an analysis of the poem A Fatal Impress that begins with:

A little leaf just in the forest's edge,
All summer long, had listened to the wooing... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dcdcbX eXecff XgcgXc hXhchh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101100101 11011100010 01001110101 10111110010 110001001110 01011111010 1111011101 01010101010 1100010101 10011101110 11011111010 110111111101 1111110101 111111111101 01011010101 01000101010 111111001010 10010110010 110111111111 01110111110 11011111110 11011101010 01110101010 0101111010 1101110101 0111010101 0101011001 11010101110 1101000101 0101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; so, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).

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  • summary of A Fatal Impress;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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