This is an analysis of the poem The Recessional that begins with:
Now along the solemn heights
Fade the Autumn's altar-lights; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa aaaa bbXb Xcac ddbd XeaX ddbd ffef ggeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1010101 101110010 10111 1010001 1011001 10111010 11111 11111010 10111110 1010111 101010 1010001 10101101 11100010 10101 1011001 1011101 1101010 10101 1010101 1011100 101010010 00110 1110111 1111111 10101010 11111 010100111 1011101 11111010 00101 1010101 1011101 10101110 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, going are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word little at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Recessional;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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