This is an analysis of the poem The Passing Glory that begins with:
Slow sinks the sun, a great carbuncle ball
Red in the cavern of a sombre cloud,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabcdbcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110101101 100100011 1001010111 0101010101 1111000101 1001010101 1101011111 1001000101 0111011101 1101010001 10101000101 1101110101 1111111101 01110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Passing Glory;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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