This is an analysis of the poem Through Agony that begins with:

I
All night, through the eternity of night, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccbbccbadXdad X aeeaaeeabbbbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1110010001 1111011111 1011011111 11110101101 1100111101 1111110001 1111011111 0101011101 1111110101 1110111101 1101110100 1101001101 1111110001 1111010101 1 1111010111 11011101011 1101110011 0111110101 1111011101 0100101001 0111010001 0101001101 0101110101 0101010011 0100011001 0111010001 1101110101 11010100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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