This is an analysis of the poem The Waning Year that begins with:

A Sense of something that is sad and strange;
Of something that is felt as death is felt,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef egeg hbhb icic
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010111 0101011101 1111000101 011101 0101010001 0011010111 11101010111 110101 1001011101 10101100101 1011100101 010101 0111010101 0101110111 1001110101 1000111 0101010101 1111100101 1101110101 111101 1111111111 1101011101 1111111101 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; from, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.

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  • summary of The Waning Year;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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