This is an analysis of the poem An Evening Guest that begins with:
IF, in the silence of this lonely eve,
With the street lamp pale flickering on the wall, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dede bfbf fXfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0001000101 00111100101 1100010110 01010111111 1110011100 1011010101 1011011101 1101010111 1111011111 11110111111 11010011111 0110010100 1111111001 0101000101 11111100101 1111000101 1111110101 1111110100 1011110111 11101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word 'i is repeated.
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