This is an analysis of the poem Presences that begins with:
THIS night has been so strange that it seemed
As if the hair stood up on my head.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaXabXcdbadc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011011101 100111111 0101001111 1101011011 010011101 111101111 111101101 011110101 110011101 111101010 11111110 100101101 11010110010 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 535
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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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