This is an analysis of the poem The Ballad Of That P.N. that begins with:
The shades of night had fallen at last,
When through the house a shadow passed, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXeeffbbggddX aaeebbddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111011 11010111 11100101 110101001 11011101 11001101 0111101 101101111 010 11110011 110110011 010101001 11010101 10010011 01111111 11010001 110011101 100110111 01010011 010 01111101 11010101 010111001 01010001 11010101 01000101 101111111 01111101 010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 502
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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