This is an analysis of the poem His Tuning Of The Night that begins with:

All night he lies awake tuning the sky,
tuning the night with its fat crackle of static,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcc dXbdecd dXfaX gefbc hh fcXa gXfXXXfXb Xafbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,5,5,2,4,9,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1111011001 100100110010 0010101110 0101010110 0100110101 01011100110001 01110101100 01101010110 1010011001 10100101 101100101101 01010100011 1110010101 1101110011 11011 1001111101 10111100 1100111101 101001010 0011100010 010100110 11101010101 001111011 1100111 1101 01010001 1010000001 10010101 110101111 1010011001 10101 11010101110 01110 01111110 1001001101 0110001001 010010 1101110 1011111 111111111 111010 111111100111 110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, the, though are repeated.

    The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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