This is an analysis of the poem After Sunset that begins with:
REST--rest--four little letters, one short word,
Enfolding an infinitude of bliss-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdcecfeeeccgebhidXaeeXicdigXaabcX hfcdafX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010111 1001100001 1001010101 1101010100 1011111101 1011110101 0111101 1111 1101111001 1101111011 1101111101 101111 0101 0101010101 1111100001 0101010101 0101010101 0111110101 100101 1101 1011010100 1101010111 1011011111 0001010001 0100011001 11000010101 01010100100 10001110101 010010010101 0100111111 1101011000 10110111001 1101010011 0111000101 1111010111 1011011101 1101111111 01110100101 10110100011 1001010101 1001010101 1001100101 10011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 898
- Average number of words per stanza: 152
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; rest, light, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines light is repeated).
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