This is an analysis of the poem Plainte Eternelle that begins with:
The sun sinks down, the tremulous daylight dies.
(Down their long shafts the weary sunbeams glide.)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abBA baAB abBA baAB abBA baAb abbAXbaAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110100111 1111010101 0111100101 1111010011 0111100101 1101110101 1111010011 1011101111 1111010011 0101010111 1011101111 1101010101 1111101111 0111110001 1101010101 1010110011 1101010101 1001110101 1010110011 1011110111 1101110011 1011010111 1011110111 1111011111 1111110111 1001010111 1111011111 11010100111 1111011111 1001110111 11010100111 0111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Plainte Eternelle;
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- history of its creation;
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