This is an analysis of the poem Through The Happiness Of Twilight that begins with:
Through the happiness of twilight,
Who is it who sighs, what is the lament?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaX bcaXc caXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10100011 1001110001 111010111 10101 0001001 000101 01001 00101011 110010 10010001101 11101 111101 1110 1110010 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; who is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, is are repeated.
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