This is an analysis of the poem The Final Reckoning that begins with:

’Twas a wild and stormy sunset, changing tints of lurid red
Flooded mountain top and valley and the low clouds overhead;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eedd ffdd ggdd hhdd dddd iidd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110111010101 101011101011101 101110100010101 1101110111101 101010111010101 101111101010101 101010101110101 101011101111101 111111000111101 1001001101011111 101011101110101 101011101110101 101010101010101 101010101010101 101110101010101 11101110110110101 101011101010111 101010101010101 111110101110101 1001001101101101 1010110011010111 001011101011111 1110111011111110 1110111111111110 011111100011001 110111101101101 101011100111101 1110101011011101 101010111010101 101110101010101 111010101010101 11101010101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 65 (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; and, with, s, i, that are repeated.

    The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word undone at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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