This is an analysis of the poem Song At Sunset that begins with:
SPLENDOR of ended day, floating and filling me!
Hour prophetic--hour resuming the past!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd Xeff eXbbghab iffjkXj blkmkXcnX okkeepffdi ifdXmk dhjo gffhbXapXlko kffmmhm nkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,7,9,10,6,4,12,7,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100101101101 100101001001 01011101100 11111011111 10101110010 101110010 100101100101 0101001001001 01001001 01001111101000101 010001000100110100100 11 0100010101010010 0100010101000101010 1100101 0100110111111001 001 0010101010100 00100010010 00010001 00111011 00011100000111 00011001 100001 100001 0101010111001 01011010 01010110101 001111101111101 00100110110111 0000100111 01110110111110111 100111011111 11111001010001 1011100101 101111111011111 11 1010111100001 1011111011010 11 101010101001110 1 1010011001100 110010001 11100101101100110 1101001 111111101011001 010 1110011011111110 1110011100011010 1001 111101001011 111101010 111010010 11111111111011 111100101110011000 1 11110100101101101 00101 11101011011110111 11 110110111110010101 0101101111100101 10 11010001011 1101010001 111001010010 1100101 111111101000101 111111110101001100 101 110110111 1110101011101010 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, illustrious, in, to, how, on, and, i, too, as, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words illustrious, in, wonderful, to, how, o, i, as are repeated.
The author used the same word wonderful at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines things, on are repeated).
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