This is an analysis of the poem To The Darkness that begins with:

Thou hast taken the light of many suns,
And they are sealed in the prison-house of gloom....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdebaafdbg hbXgdXfaadbcihXfXaaieibidgXiXidXdiab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,36,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110010101 11110010101 101101 11100101 01010101 11100011001 1011100 10101010 1010101 111010101 1110101100 010011110 0100111101 10110 001111011 11110010101 110110100101 1100101001 10010101 110010001 11101010101 1010001 111111101 1110100 10101010111 11101001 010100100 0110100 10100101 111000010001 00100001011 001000111110 111101 1111101 110111 11001111 11111000101 111111 10000010001 1100100010101 1011110100010 11100100101 111001 11101001 111011 11011010101 11100100101001 1101001 1010010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 953
  • Average number of words per stanza: 189
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, the, and, to are repeated.

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  • summary of To The Darkness;
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