This is an analysis of the poem Stormy Dusk that begins with:
To-night the dark came stormy down,
The sun went red to rest;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcdcbC XececeXcaXdXbC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 011101 11011101 110101 01110001 010111 101101 1110010 1010101 00111 01110111 010101 1111101011 111101 11111111 110011 11010111 1010110 11010101 1010100 11111101 110101 011101 00111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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