This is an analysis of the poem Eurydice - To Victor Hugo that begins with:

Orpheus, the night is full of tears and cries,
And hardly for the storm and ruin shed... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cddcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10001010111 1101011101 11011010001 1101101101 1111010011 1101011101 1011100101 1011011101 1101010111 0111010011 101110111001 1101010101 1110111101 111111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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