This is an analysis of the poem The Postilion that begins with:
Passing lovely was the night,
Silver clouds flew o'er us,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cdcX efeX deXe cgcg cXcf ahah bgbg aiai ajaj akak lglg cicX mhmh aXaf nXnX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1011101 01100101 101010 1011111 101111 1110111 101011 10100001 111110 1110101 1010100 1000111 101010 1101100 101110 1100101 101110 1010101 1101110 1110001 1010100 10101010 100010 1111101 101010 1010111 101110 1100101 101010 1011111 111010 1010101 101111 1010101 1011011 1010101 101010 1010111 111010 10111111 111011 1110111 101011 1011101 111110 1111101 111110 1110101 1001111 11101001 0110110 01011111 111010 1111101 001010 0011101 100100 1000111 1001110 1111111 101010 1110001 0111100
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, i are repeated.
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- summary of The Postilion;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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