This is an analysis of the poem The Last Evening that begins with:
And night and distant rumbling; now the army's
carrier-train was moving out, to war....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab bcbc dXd Xee Xe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 111101001010 1001110101 1110010111 11110110110 11111100010 11010100101 00110110110 11001010011 1100010101 11110101010 11010011001 01010110111 110100101010 10110001001 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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