This is an analysis of the poem The Flight Of The Wild Geese that begins with:

Wrapt in the darkness of the night,
Gathering in silence on the shore,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbbcbcdXeXdaea dfefgbXbeaga
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010001 100010101 111010101 101111101 11010110011 0111010101 1111010101 11110111 11101110010 1010101111 10101110110 100101111110 11011101011 10111110111 11010111010 1001100101 1001011101011 101101001001111 101111101101 011100100111 101111101111001 1010110111001001 11111101011001 10100101110111 111111011110 11011111101 10111011001 1001100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 728
  • Average number of words per stanza: 131
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; your is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word night at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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