This is an analysis of the poem The Great Sunset that begins with:

A flight of six heavy-motored bombing-planes
Went over the beautiful inhuman ridges a straight course northward;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXdcbefX ededgcdadXeahbXahfacddeabgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010110100101 11001000101001110 010010101100 110101110111 01110110101110010 0100110 11011011100010100 110110110010101010 11 01010011011001010 101 11001011 01011100101111010010 01000111 110110111100010 01011011010 010111010111010 100111011 110101010111011 1 010011100101011 100011101 1011101110111110 10110110100 0101101100111110 100110101100 1011011010111011 101100 0101000011011010 1010101010 0100011010100 100110110001101010 100111 00110111011010111 10101101 1011110010101 01111011010 0101101010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 932
  • Average number of words per stanza: 166
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; and, from are repeated.

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  • summary of The Great Sunset;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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