This is an analysis of the poem Before Sunset that begins with:
Love's twilight wanes in heaven above,
On earth ere twilight reigns:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaB bXbXabaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101001 111111 11110111 1111 110100101 111110 01111001 11010101 111101 11111101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; twilight is repeated.
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