This is an analysis of the poem Twilight Thoughts that begins with:

The God of the day has vanished,
The light from the hills has fled, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcded efXfegag haiahded ccacibbb hfbfXjej
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001110 0100111 101010110 0100111 11001110 1100101 1101011 010101 1100101 1100111 11011110 1101111 01010010 1100101 101001011 11001001 110011110 001111101 01111010 0100101 011110010 1101111 01010011 000101 111001010 11100101 111010010 1100101 10111110 1111101 101111011 0101111 1110011110 0100011 111001010 1111101 111011010 110101 11110011 000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, fair, how, i, who are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Twilight Thoughts;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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