This is an analysis of the poem Poem 18 that begins with:
NOw welcome night, thou night so long expected,
that long daies labour doest at last defray,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbXbXbXXXbXbXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011111010 1111111101 1111111010 110111011 111111111 1111101 10110101010 0101011101 11110110001 1101010101 010011 110101110 01110011110 1111011001 1101011001 1111101101 10110 1101110101 1110101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 753
- Average number of words per stanza: 142
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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