This is an analysis of the poem Nights Nothings Again that begins with:

WHO knows what I know
when I have asked the night questions...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb Xdefa ggb hfffd iedb ijgF kbi ieei Ibgkcg Ijbfccb effbbb Ibbdi ffefeil Iefbek eXbfcg fdhgb ecfiibcccjgFlXfafXcbbjgiacj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,3,5,4,4,3,4,6,7,6,5,7,6,6,5,27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 11110110 10111010 100110 11010100 0110010110010 101110010111 101100100111001100110 0101011100111001001101101011 010101 01111110 11101110 0101 01010 11001 011110 110110 10101 101001 1010 1010010 1101 0101 0101 1011 110110111 110110 1111 1101 10111 110111 11011001 1101 1010101 1111011 1011 1101 101 1101 1101 110110 111010001 100100 101010110 101011011 0011001011 101010010 01101010 0101001110 1101110 1101101110 1101 111010 01010111 0101010110 11110101 1010011 011100011 01000101011 1001010111 101101010 1011101011 010100111101 1101 111001 101111011 101011111 111111010001 10101101001101110010 1101111 11011011010 111111111 01001001 11010101 11010101 111110001 11110 010111 10010111 100001011 01010111110100110110110111010110100011001011101011010110001000010100110111000101110101001 100110101011010101011101010111110100110110111100110 1111101101110101110101111110101 110111011 11011100110111 110111010 111100 11110 0111 10101 11101 1011 1111011111 11011010 0101011011 110011011 110111001 11101011100110 11101101111101 1110010010110101 00100101111 0101011 10101 10100111 01011010 1011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 773
  • Amount of lines: 123
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, of, and, women, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, this, and, the, i, across, for, these are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines women, questions, rain, night are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase night connects the lines.

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