This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of Finis that begins with:
At the edge of All the Ages
A Knight sate on his steed, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXcXc XbabacXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 011101 01011101 010101 11101010 0010111 10111110 1011101 11011101 1001001 111 1 1011101101 11101 10010001 11001001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word his is repeated.
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