This is an analysis of the poem The Vain Spell that begins with:

THE house sleeps dark and the moon wakes white,
The fields are alight with dew; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abABBacaaX cdbdaaaaa abABBeXeeX dadafffff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,10,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011110111 0110101 1011101101 11100111 111 1101111111 10101100 11111111 111101111 0111011 1110100101 11101001 11011101 10111111 101010101 10110101 101011001001 1111001001 10100101 110010111 10110101 1011101101 11100111 111 11111111110 1010011001 1111001010 0010010010010 001101110 011110111 1110101 010110101 10110101 101011101011 1100101 110101011 1011011111 10110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; heart, she, i, to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, when, she, but, and are repeated.

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