This is an analysis of the poem End Of The World that begins with:

When I was young in school in Switzerland, about the time of the Boer War,
We used to take it for known that the human race...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXaXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111101010001010011 110101110101 11011110101011101110 010111001010001011 001101010101001 0101111111111001 101101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 450
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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