This is an analysis of the poem Grey Nights that begins with:
A while we wandered (thus it is I dream!)
Through a long, sandy track of No Man's Land,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba bcbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010011 1011010111 1101010101 0111010101 11010000011 1101111101 1000110101 10110011001 11010010101 1101010111 11110110110 1111001101 11100111010 1001111100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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