This is an analysis of the poem Villanelle At Sundown that begins with:

Turn your head. Look. The light is turning yellow.
The river seems enriched thereby, not to say deepened. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abC dba abC Xba dbc Xbac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101010 0101011110110 100110010011 110100101010 11011100101010 11010011010110 010111101010 01101010101010 100110010011 011101011010 1111010100110 110111101110 1101101011110 10111101110111 1100101010111 111101011110 11010101111011 100110101010 1100110010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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