This is an analysis of the poem Twilight that begins with:

IT is the twilight hour,
The daylight toil is done, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdebefdfdgbgb hgagcicIhgbgcjXjcebegbkb ablbamkmnbebeifi anon apbpcjcjligiapnpamhmbdld nqnqojpjlncn bnpnneae pqnqcrnreenebelekchcbphX obebXgcghspsphkhXikiinan gmkmepap abcbhnanhkgk gIki apappnbnpXabfrXrXebhbanen
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,24,16,4,24,12,8,24,24,8,12,4,25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0001110 011101 10111010 0011101 0001110 110111 0001110 110101 11101110 0010111 101011110 111111 1111010 111111 1101110 110111 1111010 1111010 1111010 1101010 10111010 1110101 11111010 010101 1101010 01111001 1111110 110101 1111110 1010101 0100110 111101 11101110 1110101 1111110 0010001 1111010 1111101 11110010 1110101 1101110 1010111 00101110 1110111 10101110 110011 101001010 0010101 1101111 111101 10101011 1110101 11111011 1010111 11101110 1111111 10101010 1010101 0111110 10101001 1111010 110101 10110010 1011101 10101010 110101 0111010 010101 01111010 1110101 1101010 111101 11101110 010111 0101010 011101 1101010 110001 11101110 111101 1100010 0011101 1111010 1110101 11101110 010101 10111010 010101 11101010 0011101 10111110 010101 11101010 00101001 1101010 1111101 1111010 111101 0100111 1011101 1101110 1010110 1101110 111111 1111110 010101 0111010 111101 11101010 0010001 1111010 111001 10101101 1111111 1111010 1010111 1111010 010101 1111110 011101 0111010 0010101 0111010 00101001 11111010 1110111 0111110 0111000 1111010 110111 10111011 0111101 1111011 110111 11101110 1110111 0101010 1010101 01011010 10011011 11101110 111101 10111110 011101 101011100 0011101 1111011 111111 11101011 0010101 1111010 110101 10101010 111101 0100110 1110011 1111011 110101 1111010 110101 01110010 0100111 11101110 010101 11010100 1010101 10111010 110101 1111010 0111101 01001010 111101 11111110 010101 111110010 1111111 10100110 110101 10101010 1010101 10101110 0010101 11101010 0010101 10101110 010101 10111110 1011111 1101010 1110101 11111000 011101 10101111 010101 00101110 1110011 11110110 1111101 10111011 0010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 453
  • Average number of words per stanza: 81
  • Amount of lines: 200
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, ye, her, of, his, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words are, of, the, there, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word by at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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