This is an analysis of the poem The Last Wish that begins with:

Go to the forest-shade,
Seek thou the well-known glade,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb aadeed bbdeed eefggf ddadda bbhiih ffjeej kkheeh jjlbbl mmaaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101 110111 11001101001 101111 111101 1101010111 111101 011101 0101100101 110101 000101 1111010111 111101 010110 111101010010 110101 100101 01111111010 111101 101101 0101010111 100111 100101 11110011101 110111 110011 0011000101 100111 100101 011100100101 111111 010001 11000100101 1111010 01010010 1111110111 101101 100101 001001011111 110101 111111 1101000101 101101 110111 1111110111 111101 111111 0111011111 110111 1001111 0101010101 111101 111110 0101010101 111101 111101 0011110101 1111010 1111110 01001000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Last Wish;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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