This is an analysis of the poem At The Last. that begins with:

The sky grows white with the moon,
And the sea yearns up to the night...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacaacdXdXaccaefXedfdfbaabgddghihijffjakkalclc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111001 10111001 10101011 1110101 100111 1010101 00100101 10101111 100111 1110101 1111101 00101110 111111 100111 1001011 00100101 111111 1110101 110100 0101101 1010111 0011101 1011111 0010101 110111 110111 1110101 10110101 100111 1001101 1101101 10100101 1110001 0001011 10110101 1011101 110101 110100 110111 100111 100111 100111 1011101 0011001 111100101 111001010 0110111 1011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1463
  • Average number of words per stanza: 298
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words over, some, then, and, so, never, ere are repeated.

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  • summary of At The Last.;
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