This is an analysis of the poem Last August Hours Before The Year 2000 that begins with:
Spun silk of mercy,
long-limbed afternoon,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcacdbcXefXX XXcefX XXgXdXgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 11101 1101010011 110101010110 101 10010001101010 11111101 1110101 10011010 1011010101 111111 1011 1101111 101001100110 0111 0101001010 110110111 001011 110101010101 11010111 111101 111010101 11111 1110 101001101 1111 010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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