This is an analysis of the poem Sleepless Nights that begins with:
In sleepless nights my sad forgotten lute
Breathes with low strains of broken melody,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccaadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110101 1011010100 1011111001 1101001100 1101011111 11011110110 1111101001 01100111110 1111110101 0011110101 11011100011 111100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 532
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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