This is an analysis of the poem The Last Song that begins with:
She sleeps; he sings to her. The day was long,
And, tired out with too much happiness,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabbaXbbXcdbaaXefgXhXicbgfihXXXebcbihbdfXcbic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111000111 1101011100 1111110110 1111010111 0101110101 10111000011 1111010101 1011000111 0101010101 0111001100 0101101101 0111010101 1001010111 01010100101 0101110101 1101010100 1111010101 01010101011 1101011111 1100100111 0011010101 1101010101 11010 10111 1101110101 0101010101 11000010001 1100101010 1001010101 01010101000 0111010110 01001000101 0101000111 0101011100 01011010101 11011100111 11010 10101 1111110101 0111111101 0111100101 0101111111 01001010011 0101010011 1111010110 11001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1940
- Average number of words per stanza: 339
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, her, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his are repeated.
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- summary of The Last Song;
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