This is an analysis of the poem Tenebrae that begins with:
He was so tired that he was scarcely able to hear a note of the songs: he felt imprisoned in a cold region where his brain was numb and his spirit...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X bccbcXbb X cddccddceXeXec X faac X dccXXb X fddffddfghghgh X ibXidb X geegbbXX X jjbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,8,1,14,1,4,1,6,1,14,1,6,1,8,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011110100101001110100011010111101011010 1 100101 11101 100101 101001 000110 01110 1100 100001 1 1110111101 1110011111 1111111111 0100010011 0111110111 0101111101 1111011101 0101011101 1111001101 11010111100 1101011111 1011011000 1100110101 1101110011 1 1010011011 1010011001 1111010101 1010001101 1 11010101 11110101 11111101 11001100 11011101 11001100 1 1001000101 1001100101 1011110110 1111101101 1101010001 0111111111 1101111101 1101110011 0101010001 0100011111 1001010101 1100010111 1101110011 10010010011 1 00011001010 00010010110 0011000101 000101010010 0001000101 0001010101 1 1101001 01101 110101 1001001 10010001010 01010 1000100 10010001000 1 1001010011 10010101001 1111010011 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, your, in, you, i, our, this, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, this, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines choice is repeated).
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- summary of Tenebrae;
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