This is an analysis of the poem Prelude To An Evening that begins with:
Do not enforce the tired wolf
Dragging his infected wound homeward...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX acXb daeX dXXe XcXX aXeb cXac eXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 100010110 010100110 10010101 0100000101 101010001 011101010 0101000010 1111001110 110111011 1011101110 0110001010 00101001110 111110101 11011011 0101101010 111101100 1001011110 101101011101 11010101 0100100111 11010100 110101010 0110100110 1000100011 1011001111 1111001011 01010001 11010111010 11101000 110111000 1101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Prelude To An Evening;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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