This is an analysis of the poem Sunset that begins with:
I know you are not cruel,
And you would not willingly hurt anything in the world....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.
- Rhyme scheme: abccddefB gbbchcXb XiB cagdjkiXilgkb dilcjec mXakjkjnadcnb lnmjmhcibg jmdamkXfcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,3,13,7,13,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 11111001101001 1010011 111101010001 01010001 11111101011 1111010 00111011010 001 011110111 1011010101 10101011 110101111010101 10110 111111 010010001 111 1111100111000 101 001 100101100101 1111110 11111111111 10111 100101011 11010110100 11111101011 1101001 11111 1111 111101 01011 101111001 11110101 1011101111 001101011100 1111010111 11000101 100 1010101 1110011010 01010111001 00101 11101 001 0101001100 111101011 1111 1111010101 101011 11101101 111 01100101 110101 11000101 1011100101110 11101101 10 111010 111010111001 0101011 111010110 110010100 101101 111110010 1101011111 1100101010 10100110110 11001111 10000 101011 1011 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, in, i, and, they, it, he, as, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, it, i, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eyes, gold are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word god at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Sunset;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
Pay attention: the program cannot take into account all the numerous nuances of poetic technique while analyzing. We make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability with respect to the information.
