This is an analysis of the poem The Eve Of Election that begins with:
FROM gold to gray
Our mild sweet day... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXabXcdeedeebaabffgffXaaeffehhbhhbddccccggffffiieffdbbhjjhhhbhhbXheeeeaaiffiddkaakeejbbjddbaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 96,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 1111 010010111 1100 0101 11110101 00110 0101 11010101 0101 1001 100010101 10101 0111 11011101 1111 0111 010101101 0101 0111 01001101 0101 1101 11110101 0111 01010 1111001001 1101 01001 110101001 1101 0111 01010101 1101 0101 11111101 1100 1101 11010101 1111 1101 111101001 1101 0101 01010111 0101 0101 01000101 1111 0101 01000111 0101 1101 011100101 0101 0101 11010101 1011 1101 11010101 1111 1101 01111101 0101 0101 11010101 0111 11011 11001111 1111 1101 11011101 1001 1111 11010101 1001 0111 11110101 1011 0101 01010101 1101 0111 100010101 0101 1101 01110101 100110 01010 01000101 1111 0101 10110101 1101 0100 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2332
- Average number of words per stanza: 426
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, your are repeated.
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- summary of The Eve Of Election;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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