This is an analysis of the poem The Evening Of The Holiday that begins with:
The night is mild and clear, and without wind,
And o'er the roofs, and o'er the gardens round...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdbeeXacfeggX XbgaXbXbhXidfggedXbbahgXXigge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,29,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101111011 110011100101 0111100101 1101011101 11010011111 0111010100 1100110111 1100111111 0111011111 1101101111 1101010101 1101100101 1011010100 1111010101 11101110111 11011011111 01010101010 1101110011 1001111101 1111111101 1101101101 1111110101 0111011111 1111110111 1111110111 1101010101 01010110110 0101100101 1011010111 1111110101 1111010101 1101011100 1101110111 100100001101 1101011110 01001010101 1101110101 1111011111 1001100011 0111000101 0100111111 100111101110 1101101101 1100010101 0111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 962
- Average number of words per stanza: 186
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, thy, thou, to, i, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, where are repeated.
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