This is an analysis of the poem A Ballad Of Past Meridian that begins with:
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Last night returning from my twilight walk... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcc X adadd XXadadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,1,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1 1101001111 1101111101 1111100101 11110100101 11110100101 1 1111010101 0101110101 1111010101 11011011001 1111011111 1 1111111111 11001010101 1101010011 1101111101 0101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and is repeated.
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