This is an analysis of the poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night that begins with:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbA abA abA abA abAXabAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111000101 1111111101 1101010001 1111111101 0111111101 1111000101 0101111011 1111110011 1101010001 1111110101 1111110101 1111000101 1111110101 11111100101 1101010001 1111011111 1111011111 1111000101 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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