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

When the last fence looms up, I am ready
And I hope when the rails of it crack ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababcXcXddXXefeXabaedXdefdfeceX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111110 111101001 10010011010 01001101 1111111110 001011011 1110010011 01011001 111110011 11101011 11110011010 110011011 110111011 11011101 1010111010 101011101 111110010 100111001 111111110 11111111 110001011 01101101 1010111010 01111011 1010110011 11101111 1010110010 11101011 110010011 01101011 1011010010 11001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 255
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; on, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, they, and are repeated.

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

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