This is an analysis of the poem The First Day's Night Had Come that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01111100 110101 11000001000 1111010 1101010 01001010 110110011 0101010 1100111 110101 10001001100 01011100 11000010 11000010 1110100010 1111000 11010000 1101110 101000110100 1001000
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; her, to are repeated.

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