This is an analysis of the poem Afternoon Sunlight Limps Tenuously Away that begins with:

Afternoon sunlight limps tenuously away,
Leaving a snarled retrospect of golden foot-marks....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXbXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10111110001 1001010101011 0101001010 110001011101 0100100101 01010011 10011101 1111111101 1010101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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 Afternoon Sunlight Limps Tenuously Away;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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