This is an analysis of the poem Princeton - The Last Day that begins with:
THE last light wanes and drifts across the land,
The low, long land, the sunny land of spires. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXabcbcc decdcaeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111110101 0111010101 01010101110 1101000101 10110001110 10010101010 11111111010 10010001010 1000010100110 1101011001 00100010111 11010100010 1001110101 11000011010 1101110011 1010011101 0110010101 010101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 402
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; land, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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