This is an analysis of the poem The Last Hero that begins with:
The wind blew out from Bergen from the dawning to the day,
There was a wreck of trees and fall of towers a score of miles away,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaacceeXXee aaccddaacc cccceeaaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01110100010001 110101110100101001 11010101110101 11011101000111 010110111101101 01111101110101 11010101010101 01000101110101 1011110111111 110101010111101 0101010111100 11110100110101 11000111111101 110101010010001 11011101101101 0111011011101 101101110100010 10011100010001 11110101111101 11010101111101 01110100010001 11110101011111 111101011101010 110101011101010 11111111111101 11111100010001 11010111110111 111101111100001 010110101110101 11011111111111 11111101111101 11010101110011 1101111111111 10001010011101 010111000101110 011111011101010 01110111101111 01110101011101 11110101110101 11010111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 810
- Average number of words per stanza: 162
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, rains, never, her, you, to, their, i, my, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are 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 The Last Hero;
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