This is an analysis of the poem Nocturn that begins with:
I walk, I only,
Not I only wake;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbbccddcXcXcXeXfcfeeefgfgaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 11101 100011 11111 1011 101011 10001 11110101001 00101 100101 010101 011101 011110 01001 1110110 111100 011010 11011 110011 1101 011001 1111110001 01101 10101 1101 00110 10101 11010 01101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 721
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; i, for, rose are repeated.
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- summary of Nocturn;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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