This is an analysis of the poem A Close Finish that begins with:
['A marriage is arranged between Miss Diana Dashington and Lord Broadacres.']
The race of the season is over ; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ababcdcd efefacac bgbgffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101101010011100 010010010 11101011 110110010 11111001 111010010 11111001 111011110 11010101 111010110 11011001 1101111010 11011011 1011110010 01111001 0010110010 11101011 111110110 11011001 011110010 111011001 110110110 110010110 111100010 110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; i, at, to, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word at is repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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