This is an analysis of the poem When Once The Twilight Locks No Longer that begins with:

When once the twilight locks no longer
Locked in the long worm of my finger...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb bbdeed bbeffg hhijji ggkjjk llbffbXeejeej
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111110 100110110 1101110111 01011101 01010111 1101010001 10010111 11011101 1111010101 11010111 11011111 1111010001 110110101 11110001 1101010001 11010101 10010101 1101010001 110100001 010010101 0100011111 11011101 11011111 1111011101 11010101 01010001 1101010101 11110101 11010101 1101110001 11011101 11011111 1111010001 11111101 11010101 0110110001 01110001 01000101 1101010111 01000111 11010101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, that are repeated.

    The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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