This is an analysis of the poem A Noonday Melody that begins with:
Everything goes to its rest;
The hills are asleep in the noon;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababab cdcdcd ababab bebebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001 01101001 11011001 101111101 001001101 101101101 01101001 001011001 01101101 101111101 11111011 1001101001 01111001 001101001 11101101 001111101 11101111 111001101 01101101 101101101 101111011 101011001 11011111 11111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Noonday Melody;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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