This is an analysis of the poem Lights Out that begins with:
I have come to the borders of sleep,
The unfathomable deep ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb dddbbd bbeffe ddghhg bbijji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001001 0010001 101111 111101 110111 1101 100111 110111 100101 010100 10011 1011 111 010101 1101110 1111110 11011010 11110 101101 110101 1111101 0100001 11101101 1111 011010 0101010 011011 01011101 111111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ends is repeated).
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- summary of Lights Out;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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