This is an analysis of the poem Halls Grew Darker that begins with:

Halls grew darker and somehow faded.
Grates of windows drowned in black. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX aXaX acXc bdbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011110 1010101 100110010010 1010111010 101101011 101101011 1001111101 10100101 101001001 111011001 101001001 111011001 1010010010 11100101 1010010110 101111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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.

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

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  • history of its creation;
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