This is an analysis of the poem A Last Word that begins with:
Let us go hence: the night is now at hand;
The day is overworn, the birds all flown;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba acacac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010111 0101000111 1111010111 01111101001 1111110101 1011111101 0101001101 1101011101 11111000111 0101111101 1101111101 1001011111 1111110101 1111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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 author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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