This is an analysis of the poem On Such A Night, Or Such A Night that begins with:

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On such a night, or such a night,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXbX acbX Xdbd XXXc XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11011101 110001 0101010 1100010 1100110 111111 1101010 11000110 110111010 110001 1101010 110101 11000110 1101100 11010100 110101 11010101 11001010 101011010 1101010 111101110 1101110 11011101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; such, quiet, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

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