This is an analysis of the poem The Final Painting that begins with:

The white cloud passed over the land
there is sea always round the land...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXbXXcdXXXeXddceXbabcXXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01111001 10111101 0101110101 0100101001 100100101011 0111010110 101110101 10111 0111001101 011111001010 011011010 01001110100010 001010001101 11110001 0110101 01010100100 000101011 0001101111 10010001 111100001001 1101001011011 10101010 0101011010 010101101 1010001010 01101000101 0000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1051
  • Average number of words per stanza: 198
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; cloud, or, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines land is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Final Painting;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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