This is an analysis of the poem Epilogue Ii that begins with:
When dusk falls cool as a rained-on rose,
And a tawny tower the twilight shows,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaababa X aaacaca X bbbabab X dddeded e cccdcdc e fffgfgf X hXhXhhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111110111 1010100111 001010101011100111 010101101 100111101 0100100101 111010101 1 1110011101 100100001 101011001010010101111 11001001 1110101001 110010101 110011111 1 10100101111 1101100111 1101011010110100111 010111 110011111 1010111101 0010101100 1 1011111111 0101011011 111011110111101101 011101111 111101101 010111101 010111111 1 010010111 101010111 11001001010011100101 010100101 1111101111 1111101111 110010101 1 111111101 110111101 1001001010010111101 100100101 1111111001 0110110101 10010001 1 1110111111 1101001110 10010010110010101111 0100100100 1010111011 0101111111 11010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; moon, cities, and, their, houses, elf, goblin, bugles, of, princess, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, or, the are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Epilogue Ii;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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