This is an analysis of the poem Night In The Gardens Of Port Of Spain that begins with:

Night, the black summer, simplifies her smells
into a village; she assumes the impenetrable...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX ba cb bc Xd Xd ce Xe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010101 00010101001000 1001011011 01010001101 10110010010 10110000101 1110111011 0101010101 001100001001 1011010011 10110101010 1101001111 01111101010 1000011101 1111011010 01010101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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