This is an analysis of the poem White Night that begins with:
I haven't locked the door,
Nor lit the candles, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXXXbX XcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 11010 11111 11011001 0010101 100110 01110110 101101 110011 111 1110011 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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