This is an analysis of the poem Venetian Night that begins with:

Her eyes in the darkness shone, in the twilight shed
By the gondola bent like the darkness over her head.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaBbccaaBbddeeaaff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010010100111 10010110101001 10001011111 0111101110110 1010010100101 1001111100 01110010001 011010010011 10001011111 00101001101010 101110110101 100101001001 100010110111 10010110101 111100100111 10010110101001 110111001101 1010010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 903
  • Average number of words per stanza: 163
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; her, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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  • summary of Venetian Night;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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