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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