This is an analysis of the poem Amor Hesternalis that begins with:
Our blood is swayed by sunken moons
And lulled by midnights long foredone;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbaA CddcC eXXee AXXaA fggXfXabbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 111101100 11000101 0100101 11011101 01000101 11010101 01110101 11111101 01000101 11000111 11101100 1100100 11110001 11000111 10011101 10011101 10011001 11011101 10011101 01010111 11010101 11110101 01010100 01110111 11010010 11010001 11110101 10010111 01010010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; our is repeated.
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