This is an analysis of the poem Anzac Eve that begins with:

In dusk of Eve the city lay-
And Life's dark pall lay o'er my heart;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc bdbdaX bdbdcc XeXecc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 111111011 11110101 01110101 11000101 11010101 11111101 11110111 11010101 110011111 11011111 01011101 11010111 11111101 01101101 10111101 11110111 11111011 11110101 01010101 11010101 11010101 11111101 10111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 211
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Anzac Eve;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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