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

Here’s the criminal’s friend, delightful evening:
come like an accomplice, with a wolf’s loping:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabbaaccddXeeXffggggaghhggaXeXddaadX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100100101010 11101000110 1001111110 11010101010 1011001011111 010110101001 11001001010 110110100010 01000100101 0110100101 1101010101 1000011101 1011110011 1010111011 1010101101 100010001111 1001010101 11100100111 100000100101 101100110010 111101010 01001001001 111101010 100111110 10111110110 010100111100 1111101111 0111110111 01101110110 111100101 0110100101 111010111 11010101010 011010111001 0100101111010 1011101011010 101001001101 10101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1730
  • Average number of words per stanza: 302
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s, evening, their are repeated.

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

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