This is an analysis of the poem When The Eye Of Day Is Shut that begins with:
When the eye of day is shut,
And the stars deny their beams,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae afaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1010111 1010101 1010101 0110101 0011001 1111101 1111101 1011011 0011111 0110111 1110111 0110101 0011001 1111111 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; from, in, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, from, in are repeated.
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