This is an analysis of the poem Rainy Night that begins with:

Ghosts of all my lovely sins,
Who attend too well my pillow,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abac abac dede fafa gaga gXgh fhfh gaXa XiXi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 10111110 1010101 10111011 1011111 10111010 1111100 11101011 1110001 11101010 10010101 10101010 1110101 11101110 1100101 00100010 10010111 10101010 1100101 10101010 1111001 10101110 1111111 10111010 1010101 11101010 1111111 00100010 101011 10101010 0010010 10011010 101100 10101110 0010110 11101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Rainy Night;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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