This is an analysis of the poem Tenebrae that begins with:
At the chill high tide of the night,
At the turn of the fluctuant hours,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaab bcbbc abaab bdbbd efXef agaag bhbbh iciic gbggb bibbi jajja fcffc jbjjb kfdkf ifiif acaac fkffk alaal jbjjb mdmmd nanna kikki eceec aoaao lXlla eaeea dmddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111001 101001010 101001111 001001111 010011010 0010110001 1101001 1011001 111001 1001001 111011 1110110 01111111 10101011 101001110 1101000 010000010 111011 101001 1010010 01110110 100001101 101010100 101010010 10110001 00101101 00101001 1110111 01101101 0100111 10100111 01110011 01001001 0101001 01001101 111011011 1001001101 1010001001 10111001 101001101 11111001 0100010011 10111101 1101001 111101101 1011011000 111101000 11011001 1101101 101011011 1111101 101100001 101001101 10101011 01011001 1111001 0101011 0111011 1011100101 0111011 10111011 111101011 0100111 1001001 1001101 1010010101 01011101 111001010 1111001 1111001 1011011 111111111 1011001 1111111 0111110001 101111111 11001001 0001001001 1101011 1011011 1001101111 101001011 10111101 101001101 101011011 101001101 1110111 10100111 101001001 1001011 1001001001 110010101 101101001 001001001 00111011 101110001 0010110010 101011101 11100111 11010010 101001110 01001101 0110110010 11010010 1011011 101101011 01101001 001111011 10101101 01011010 100010111 01111101 1111010001 101111101 101011101 1101011 1101111 1110011 1101001 1001101 100000011101 0011101000 011011101 01110010 0111001 1011101 111111 1011111 001101101 1001001 1110110 1011011 10111010 10111010 101101100
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 135
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; at, of, as, for, they, and, we, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words at, as, in, a, for, yea, the, whose, and, all are repeated.
The author used the same words we, there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase years connects the lines.
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- summary of Tenebrae;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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