This is an analysis of the poem The Longest Day that begins with:
On yonder hills soft twilight dwells
And Hesper burns where sunset dies, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabcacb dadaaefgfe ghghhfcicf jkjkkihbhi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11011111 1110111 001101010 1011001 111010111001 001001101101 110110101 0101001001 010111 1111001 101010111 1011010101011 00100111 101111001 101001001011 01001101001 11110101 1011001011 110101 1000101 01010101 111100101 0100101 11001001 110101001101 010110111 00100111001 000101001011 1110111 01011101 11010011 11010101 01011001 01011001 11011111 0100111001 01111001001 11000011 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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