This is an analysis of the poem When The Dusk Comes Down that begins with:
Do you know what I will love best of all
To do when I'm old? At the close of day... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abBaCdDc effeghhg dccdicci djjdbjjb fkkfabBaXCdDceiie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111101101 0110110101 1011110111 1011100101 10101001101 010111001 0101001101 110101111 0101111111 1111101111 0011010101 0100110101 010110111 0111011110 00101101010 10101011111 1101111111 01001001001 0101111001 0101011001 110100111 1011111111 1100111101 100101111 10101001001 0011111101 011101111 1111101101 111111001 1101101011 1111110110 0101110111 1100101101 1111011011 0101011001 0010011111 1111101101 0110100101 1011110111 1011100101 10101001101 0010111001 0101001101 110110111 1111001001 0101001101 1011110101 1011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of, and are repeated.
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