This is an analysis of the poem A Sunset that begins with:
THE old Quarry, Sun, with bleeding scales,
Flaps up the gullies, wets their crystal pebbles, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaaXbcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010101 11010111010 100100110100 1000010110010 100111010011 11100 1110101 11010100110 1111010110101 10101011011110 01001111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 519
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
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- summary of A Sunset;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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