This is an analysis of the poem A Song For The Night that begins with:
O the Night, the Night, the solemn Night,
When Earth is bound with her silent zone, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbaXdeffgffg acechhXXhhdeed hdbdXbXbiijkkj hfefcchcaalddl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101010101 110100101 1010110101 1011110101 101010101 1010101010 101001000111 101010101 10111 1111 1010111101 10101 10101 1010110101 101010101 1010100101 110110101 110100101 111110101 1111100101 110100101 101010101 1011 1011 10010110110 1111 101001 10101110 1010110101 110110101 10101100101 11010101 1010111110 1010110101 1010110101 1011110101 1101 10101 001001010 111 10101 1101010 1010111001 111111101 1011110101 111110101 11011111 11011101 110010101 111100101 1011 11001 111111 11001 10101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 647
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; night, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, love are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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