This is an analysis of the poem My Heart At Evening that begins with:

Toward evening you hear the cry of the bats.
Two b l a c k h o r ses bound in the pasture,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXabXba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101101001 111011111110010 011010 010010110101 10 11111010 01001010001001 101100110101 110 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 353
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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