This is an analysis of the poem Your Night Is Of Lilac that begins with:
The night sits wherever you are. Your night
is of lilac. Every now and then a gesture escapes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXcdXadcXaeedabdceceX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110101111 001110011101001 001011010100 1110111110111 01011010111 1011101001010 011111111111 1010110111 011011110 01011010110110 010111011101 011100111011 0010001100110 10000101010010100100 101011100100010 101110000110011 10101110100 10010101001010 101010100100100 11111111000100100 10101011110 11010100110010 10001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1148
- Average number of words per stanza: 213
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, and, night, i, in, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, is are repeated.
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