This is an analysis of the poem James Shirley: Xiv that begins with:
THE DUSK of day’s decline was hard on dark
When evening trembled round thy glowworm lamp... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba ccdede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101011111 1101011101 1101011101 0111011001 11011100101 1101101101 101111100101 11111100111 10010011101 11001000111 01011101001 0101010101 1101000101 111100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
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