This is an analysis of the poem A Sunset that begins with:
I love the evenings, passionless and fair, I love the evens,
Whether old manor-fronts their ray with golden fulgence leavens, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccX ddeffe eebaab ggXXeX abgddg aaahha eeXcXX iiejje
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101001111010 101101110101010 0100101001 100101010010101 101010100110101 11010000 111101000101010 110001010101010 11010101 10111100101011 10110001010101 01010101 01110101110101 110011011001001 01100101 11010101010001 110101010011011 1100100100 11111101010011 10010101011001 01010101 10010101010100 0100001010101001 01010110 11010101100101 01000101010100 10010101 010101011110001 10110101110101 101110101 1100110101011 101010100101101 100110101 1111110101011 1010011000011001 01010101 1100010101001010 10101010111001 00010101 100101010000101 10001010000101010 01001101 110101010011111 01001010011111001 01111111 011101000100100 01010101100101 100011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of, every are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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