This is an analysis of the poem A Pastoral that begins with:
Just as the sun was setting
Back of the Western hills... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcXX XXDa ebXb efXf bcXc agXg ebeb XXDX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 100101 11011010 1001001 11101010 10111 110110010 0111110 111010010 11101111 1111011010 110101 11010110 0110101 11001110 1111111 11010110 110111 11111010 0111111 101011110 01011011 010110110 11011101 110111010 1100101 111010110 1101101 110010110 11011011 111110110 111010111 111010110 11101111 1111011010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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; to, t, and, it, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, an are repeated.
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- summary of A Pastoral;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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