This is an analysis of the poem Notes On An Unadorned Night that begins with:
after Rene Char
Let's agree that the night is a blank canvas, a station ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc Xde fb gh Xc i fc eh j Xc Xi hc fke l Xmm k j enX bf lk oo k h fXg kpj np hg nj pg en X hpk lf dd eeo Xk j g i di i Xb a f b j o X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,3,2,2,2,1,2,2,1,2,2,2,3,1,3,1,1,3,2,2,2,1,1,3,3,2,2,2,2,2,1,3,2,2,3,2,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011 10110100110010 101001 101101010011000 11010101001 100110001 11100111101 101001101 110111110101010 1100110101 000111011110100 010001010 11110111111 010001111111 100 01101010101111 11111 01111101101 0110000111010110 1100 01101100100101 101 10110111101 11110 101001011111001 11111111101 11011011 1100011011 11110101111001 1011100111111 1011 111011001010111 11111000101101001 11111001011011 101011101101 11 100110111110110 11111010 1110110011100101 11111 01110111101110 10 110011 110101111010 01101111001110 10110101010100 1111010110 110101001001001001 101001110101000 100010001 10000100110001 100010010 101001111011010101 10010100110 10101101010111 1101001001 11011110101011000 100 111010100010111 101101 0100101111100100 010101010001100110 1001011101010 1111000111 111101101010100 0100 0111010110110111 11001001010 0001000101011001 10011010101101 010 11101001010101001 100111011111 101110110101110 11101011011110100010 11010101110100001 01010101010111111 01 010001111 111111110101111 0101 01101011001001 01001111100110 101011 11101000111111 11110 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 49
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; at, me, i, my, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words let's, a, the, it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines flesh, were are repeated).
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