This is an analysis of the poem Twenty-Third Sunday After Trinity that begins with:

Red o'er the forest peers the setting sun,
The line of yellow light dies fast away... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dede fdfd bdbd acac ghgh igig caca aaaa jbjb adad cacaXiaia
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11001010101 0101011101 1101011111 1101010101 10101010101 11010101001 1101110111 1001011101 1101011101 11110011101 1111010001 0111011111 11011110111 01011010101 01110001001 1101010101 11010101001 0101010101 1100010101 11100101001 1100011101 11011110001 0111110111 1011010101 110110001001 11010010101 1001010101 0101011101 1100010101 1101111001 11010101001 1101010111 1011010111 1011011111 11011100111 10111110101 11011111010 111011101 11111101110 1111011101 11110101001 1101111111 10100010101 1101111111 1001111101 11110111001 10010011111 1101001101 111100111001 0111011101 11001010101 11001110101 11001010101 01010111010 1101011101 01010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; they, in, of, or, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, and, till are repeated.

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  • summary of Twenty-Third Sunday After Trinity;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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