This is an analysis of the poem The Speed Of Light that begins with:
So gradual in those summers was the going
of the age it seemed that the long days setting out...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcadXeXfagXchiXiXdfahigbaeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001101010 001011011101 101101001001 101101011011101 10001001110110 100000111001 0111110101111 101111111001101 1111100111010 1011111010101 100101111100 110001101010 0010101100010 100011010010 0001110110011 1011101010101 011010010010 111101101101 10111001000101 1010101110100 101101111011 01001001101010 1101111011111 0110101011010 1010111110110 0101110101011 10010111111010 0101111011001 11011011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1574
- Average number of words per stanza: 297
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, we are repeated.
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- summary of The Speed Of Light;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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