This is an analysis of the poem Finis that begins with:
And so we closed the book, wherein we wrote
How many words of ecstasy and pain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcdeedc fggfheiieh jkkjbldXlb ammahcccch daadnhoohn dppdakqqka hbbhdbddbc raardaeead essekaooak assaXmbbml
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010111 1101010011 1101010101 1111011101 01010011001 1100010100 11110111001 1101000101 1101110101 1111110101 010100010001 11110101010 111111110010 0101011111 11100111001 1101010111 1101010101 1111010101 0111010111 0101000101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111011101 1011010101 0101010101 0101011101 1101011110 1001010001 1111010110 01011101001 1101010101 1101111101 0101010100 1101010001 1101010101 0101010101 1101010011 1101110101 1111110101 1111010101 0100010011 11010100101 0101010101 0101000101 0110100101 1011010100 0101111100 1101110011 1101010101 1111111101 01101110111 0101010101 0101001011 0111011111 1111110001 0101011111 01110010101 0101110111 1101110100 1111110101 0101010101 1101010101 11110111001 0101010111 1101111101 1111010101 0111010111 1011011101 1101010101 1111010101 1111010101 1101011101 0001010111 0101010101 111010101 1110011101 0111111101 1101110101 01110010011 1111010101 0111010101 11011111001 0101110101 0111001101 11110100101 0100010100 1101110100 11000111011 1101010001 1100110101 1100111101 01110101011 1001111101 0101011110 1011110101 1101111101 1101011101 1101010101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 428
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, with, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, and, oh, from are repeated.
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- summary of Finis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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