This is an analysis of the poem Evening that begins with:
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xbbb cdcd c X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,1,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0111010011 1101010101 11101110011 1100010111 1111110101 111111101010 1100010000100101 0111110 111100000010 1100100011 11110101010 00100010111 01011010 0101100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Evening;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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