This is an analysis of the poem Prothalamion that begins with:
Now a gentle dusk shall fall
Slowly on the world, and all...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffffXeegfgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 1010111 01010101 1010111 1010101 1010101 1010111 1110111 0010101 01010101 0010101 10101010 0011101 1010111 10101010 1110101 1010001 1000101 1111100 10111001 11111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 633
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Prothalamion;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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