This is an analysis of the poem Last Post that begins with:
THE day's high work is over and done,
And these no more will need the sun:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBbacddccddBbed ffBbfcddddddBbed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101011 11110101 11100101 1111111 100100111 1001011010 10100111 11110011 100100111 01011111 11010000111 10110010111 11100101 100100101 110110001010 1110010101 11111111 111100101 11100101 10110101111 1010101011 1111101010 011101101 1011100101 0010011111 11101111 1001001001001 1111110111 11100101 1110100101 101100101010 101100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, blow, of, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, glory are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dead at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Last Post;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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