This is an analysis of the poem Absence that begins with:
NIGHTLY I watch the moon with silvery sheen
Flaking the city house-tops, till I feel... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXaacacac ddeefXXXggfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101001 1001011111 11001010101 1001110001 1110001111 11110101001 11011011101 10111010001 1111011101 1101001101 1001101101 0101010101 1111011101 1011101101 010011110 110101010 1110101 1000101 111001010 1000100 10101000 101101 110111010 10101010 1110100 101110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 473
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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