This is an analysis of the poem One Evening that begins with:
We lay at twilight on the hill
And saw the citron gold of sunset drain,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa bXXb cddc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 1101010111 1001011010 010111 11010101 1111110101 11110101010 111001 01110101 11011100110 11110101010 1000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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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