This is an analysis of the poem The Last Evening that begins with:
Over sea the sun in a mystery of light
Burns across the waters, on the blown spray glancing:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcaddc ceefcggf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101010010001 101010101110 1000101011010 101010101001 01101110111 10101010101 10111110101 111010010101 010101110001 00101011111110 001110011111110 10111010101 11011011101 0100111011110 011011101010 11111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 397
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; our is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word from is repeated.
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