This is an analysis of the poem Day And Night that begins with:

Through my heart's palace Thoughts unnumbered throng;
And there, most quiet and, as a child, most wise,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc adedae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11110110001 11110110111 11011110111 11110010100 1101110101 1011010111 101100100100 1011111101 11111111110 10110001010 1101100101 11010111010 10010110010 1101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 324
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and is repeated.

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