This is an analysis of the poem The Consent that begins with:
Late in November, on a single night
Not even near to freezing, the ginkgo trees...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdXa dcbXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001010101 11010100101 1101011111 010111001101 111010101011 11001011101 11011100101 110001110100 10110101010 01110111 0101010100 1101111001 1101010111 00111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
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- summary of The Consent;
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