This is an analysis of the poem A Nocturn that begins with:
Upon the face of darkness beams my soul —
Nearby, behind the curtains of my sight ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXbaAXcaccaAadaddaAXXcaXXXaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010111 1101010011 1101010101 11010101101 101111111 1 1001010101 1011 1011110101 01011100100 1011110101 1101010101 1010010111 1101110111 1011 1101110101 0101111111 1010110111 1111010111 0001010011 10110101101 1011 00100100101 0101011100 1 0101110101 0101010011 10 100101001000 0111110111 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1126
- Average number of words per stanza: 212
- Amount of lines: 31
- 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; of, here, that, no, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word here is repeated.
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