This is an analysis of the poem A Sunset that begins with:
Westward a league the city lay, with one
Cloud's imminent umbrage o'er it: when behold,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcdceXeXfbfdfXbdbgbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101 110010100101 0010001 100110101 11010110101 1001001001 010101 11011001 01010110001 1001011001010 1101000 001100110 11110100100 10001111001 0100101 11000111 0011011101 11001010101 01010110 11010101 0100100010101 1111010101 110101 10111101 0001011111 11010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 978
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
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- summary of A Sunset;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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