This is an analysis of the poem Leaning Into The Afternoons that begins with:

Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets
towards your oceanic eyes....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab bb ba Xb ab bX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1000010111111 01110101 10010111011011 011010101 111110011101 111011011011 11101011011 0101010101010 1000010111111 0111011110101 010111011 111111111 0110101001 101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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; that is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Leaning Into The Afternoons;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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