This is an analysis of the poem The Coming Era that begins with:
THEY tell us that the Muse is soon to fly hence,
Leaving the bowers of song that once were dear,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd Xeae dfXf ghgh aiai jaja ekek djdj jkjk lglX eded mjmj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101011 10010011101 01100001010 0101010101 100101001010 1001100001 11100101010 0111010101 1101011010 1111010111 100101001010 11010010001 11110101010 0101010111 11010101000 1101010101 00110101011 1101011101 01011101111 1101110101 01011100110 10110011001 11010101010 0100011101 11010100110 11011101001 11110101010 11010011101 010101001010 11010011101 11010001010 1111010101 11010111010 10010100101 11010100010 1111010101 111101101010 0101011111 01011001010 0101010101 0101011001 1101000101 10110000101 1111011111 11011101010 1011110111 110101111010 1101010101 11010111010 1001110001 10110101010 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Coming Era;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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