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

My voice that is for you the languid one, and gentle,
Disturbs the velvet of the dark night's mantle,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXcXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1110110101110 01010001110 1111010111 11110101101 110101110101 100111110101 110111101 111101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 407
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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