This is an analysis of the poem At Last that begins with:

When on my day of life the night is falling,
And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd abab cece Xfef gfgfXaaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101010 10010100101 11110101010 110101 11111101110 1101010101 11011101001 011111 01111100110 1111010111 11010011110 011101 11111101110 0011010101 11011101110 110101 010010111000 11010110101 11111101010 101101 11010111010 11001111101 110101101010 010011 10010101110 1111011101 11110111010 011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words be, some are repeated.

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  • summary of At Last;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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