This is an analysis of the poem After The Ball that begins with:

Silence now reigns in the corridors wide,
The stately rooms of that mansion of pride;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff gghhcc hheeff eeffii Xbcccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1011001001 0101011001 0100101001 0101101011 101110101 1000111001 1011100101 1101001101 110100111 0100101101 1010011101 010011101 0111001101 1111010111 0101001101 111100101 1110111001 111101001 111101111 011100111 011111101 110100101 111110101 1001001011 1100111101 1110101011 101111101 1110101000 101111111 1101000101 1110111111 1110101101 0100101110 1010010111 1111111001 11011101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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

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