This is an analysis of the poem A Similitude that begins with:
FAIR as the night—when all the astral fires
Of heaven are burning in the clear expanse, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11011101010 01011000101 1101011111 10010111010 11010010101 1101010101 1101010101 10010010010 1101010101 1001010111 1101010101 1001111101 1111110011 111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 665
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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.
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- summary of A Similitude;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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