This is an analysis of the poem When Day Is Done that begins with:

When day is done and the night slips down,
And I've turned my back on the busy town,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeedd ffaagg ddhhiiXbbeedd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110110111 1111110101 111100101 1010110101 111111101 110010111 110111111 0110110101 1010110101 1010100111 111110111 111101101 110110111 1010010101 110100101 110100101 111110101 100000111 110011101 111101101 1111101010 111101010 010110111 1010100101 110111111 1100111011 111101110 111101101 1011111101 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, here 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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