This is an analysis of the poem At Evening that begins with:

Fly home, my thoughts, that fretting
In alien words all day,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc efefaa ghghbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110 0100111 1110110 111101 1100111 1001011 1111110 110101 1111010 1011101 0101001 0111111 1111110 010101 1111110 010101 1101010 1001010 1111010 111101 0101010 010101 11010111 110101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word fly is repeated.

    The author used the same word fly at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of At Evening;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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