This is an analysis of the poem Sunset that begins with:
Slowly the west reaches for clothes of new colors
which it passes to a row of ancient trees....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX Xbca acbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110110110 10100010101 1111111111 11101101101 101110010010 1110011111010 1110001000010111 110011111 101000100001001 111101101110 11011001101 110110010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, not, to, and 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 leaving at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Sunset;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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