This is an analysis of the poem At Night that begins with:
The blueness dies out in my eyes tonight,
the red gold of my heart. O how still the light burns!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX X X XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101101101 011011111011 110101000101 111111100 01011010 11 11101011000101 1111010111111 1110101100 1101100110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, your, dein are repeated.
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