This is an analysis of the poem A Twilight Song that begins with:
Why, rapturous bird, though shades of night
Muffle the leaves and swathe the lawn,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dadaee cXcXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110011101 10011101 10110111 11111111 10101111 11011101 101101010 01010111 1101001110 01010111 110110101 01011011 11110111 111100101 010100111 01001101 11001101 10011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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; though is repeated.
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