This is an analysis of the poem After Sunset that begins with:
I have an understanding with the hills
At evening when the slanted radiance fills ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeffggddhhdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010001 11010101001 1101011100 1111011111 1111010011 1001001101 11110100111 1101011101 1101010101 11001011101 01001010111 01011010101 1111010001 1101010111 1011110111 0111010100 1111110101 1010110011 1111011111 1111110111 0011010101 1101011101 1101111101 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1041
- Average number of words per stanza: 197
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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