This is an analysis of the poem The Last Meeting that begins with:

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Because the night was falling warm and still ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdefg ahedicjkilcb Xiidh bfiilXicdm ciaeeiag hhdecdniiifiabhf cnn cmb X fniflia neiiimcccij cnlXiie eodlf ecbindni igfiXfhdceik X ieXcaili iidiloeafg X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,12,5,10,8,16,3,3,1,7,11,7,5,8,12,1,8,10,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 0101110111 0101011101 1110110111 0101011111 1101010111 1001111111 1101111001 1101111101 10001111110 0011010101 01011100011 1101110111 01010010101 0101011101 0101110101 1101111101 1100110111 0111001001 1001011111 0101010111 1011010101 1101110101 1001010011 1101010101 1111010101 1100110111 01011111001 1101110101 11010101001 1111010101 1101010111 110001101 1011010101 0111010101 1011010001 1101010101 1110110111 1011011111 0100110101 1101011101 0101110111 1101010101 0111100101 11010111001 1011110101 1001010011 1001011101 11001110101 1111010011 0101000101 1101100101 1100010101 01001011111 11010010111 01001011101 1111110101 1100011100 1111110101 1011011101 10001110101 1101110111 0101010001 11010010001 1 1011011111 1100010111 01001110101 01010001001 1101010101 01010110101 1101000101 1111110101 1101111111 11110101010 1100010011 1111110111 11011111111 1100010001 1111110111 1100111111 01010110011 1111010101 10010001011 010011011001 1111010011 11010101000 01001110001 0011110111 11001110101 1101010011 0111110101 1101011111 0101010001 1001011101 1111001101 1100100101 1100111101 1001010001 0111010111 0111111111 0101110101 11110010101 1100010001 10110101001 1101010101 1101110101 11110101110 01010100101 1011010101 1111100101 1101110101 11010110101 10110101111 11110101001 1 1111010101 1101111011 1011111001 01001111101 1111010101 0111110111 0101111111 1111000101 1101010101 11000100110 1011110101 11111100001 1111110101 1011110111 1101011001 1101010110 1010000101 1111011101 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 136
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, him, and, of, my, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.

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