This is an analysis of the poem The Birthnight that begins with:
Dearest, it was a night
That in its darkness rocked Orion's stars;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100101 1001010101 01011101 0101110101 1111010101 0101001011 111101 1111001 1011011101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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