This is an analysis of the poem What Of The Night? that begins with:

To you, who look below,
   Where little candles glow -- ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbee ffbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011101 110101 11000101 01010101 011111 111111 110011111 11110011 111101 1111001 11010001 11011111 0110011 1100111 010100011 01111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of What Of The Night?;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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