This is an analysis of the poem Night Is My Sister, And How Deep In Love that begins with:
Night is my sister, and how deep in love,
How drowned in love and weedily washed ashore,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdedeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011011101 11011100101 1001010111 101011100111 1101011101 11011100111 1111010101 1101111101 1111000111 01010101011 1011011101 0111010101 1111011011 1001100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, whose are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whose is repeated.
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