This is an analysis of the poem Evening that begins with:

WHEN the white iris folds the drowsing bee,
When the first cricket wakes... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaccc XdXdddd acaceee fafaggg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010101 101101 0101000101 1011110111 1011110001 11001010111 1111110111 10011101010 1001011101 10110100110 110101 11110011001 11101101001 110101 11011111101 1001110111 11010100111 100100 1101110001 10110101001 111101 11111101010 1101110001 11111101110 1111011 1101110101 1111011101 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • 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; when, and, me are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, give, where are repeated.

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  • summary of Evening;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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