This is an analysis of the poem Nyctalops that begins with:
Ye that see in darkness
When the moon is drowned...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbAb dedebX dfcfXX XdXXXX Xgagdg afXfdfXdcacdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 10101 001011 10101 111010 11111 111110 10101 0101010 110001 11010110 010100 111011 10101 11110 010101 111010 00100 111010 011001 1110100 110101 11001010 1111010 111010 110101 0111010 11001 0011011 110101 111010 110101 1101010 010101 1101010 111001 111110 111001 1001110 011101 111011 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Nyctalops;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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