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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  • summary of At Night;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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