This is an analysis of the poem The Fall Of The Deserted that begins with:

The Fall of the Deserted
The dark fall swells with fruit and abundance,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcdab eXfXXd gcgcbb f X XXXXeX XXXXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,1,1,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100010 0111011010 01001010101 0110100101 11100101 01010110 1001001010010 11110110101 0011011001 0110000110 01010100101 01110101011 0110111011 0110101000101 001101010011 110110001 101011101 110110101 11100101 01011010 111100 1101111111 1001111000 1111110001 1111111010 100111111 1110101010 1101111111 110110111 111011000 111101010 11111011 11111111 11010111 0110111100 110101111 10110011010 11111111 11111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; s, der are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, der are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, der at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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