This is an analysis of the poem Sea Sunset that begins with:
A gallant city has been builded far
In the pied heaven,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedebX adadff gcgXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010101 00110 100010100011 01010 01010001110 010010101110 0100010101 11010 1000010111 11010 101100110010 010101011100 1111010101 11010 0111010101 11010 11011111010 01110111010 1111010101 111100 1000010101 101010 01010111010 10111101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sea Sunset;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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