This is an analysis of the poem The End that begins with:
Not every man knows what he shall sing at the end,
Watching the pier as the ship sails away, or what it will seem like...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXaX XcXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111111101 1001101101110011 11110111001101 1111111001111011 10111010110101 1011100110111001 110011100111101001 10100110110101 011101011010010 110010011101101001 11001110101111111 101101100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, when, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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- summary of The End;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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