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

Why did you give no hint that night
That quickly after the morrow's dawn,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccX dedeffe XdXdXXd gagadda hghgiiX gjgjffj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111111 110100101 1101001001 1111111101 111110 01010 0111011010 100101 1110101 1100110111 110100101 01010 11110 111101101 11111101 1110100111 10100100101 1110111100 1010010 01010 00010101 101101 11110111 10011111 01010101 11011 11111 1110010101 111000111 011101111 111100101 110101111 10010110 110010 1101111000 111101 100011 111011111 011111111 11110 11010 110110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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

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