This is an analysis of the poem The Shadow Of Night that begins with:
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Fall, Hercules, from heaven, in tempests hurl'd,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccaaddcc ddbbeeccaaXXaaaaffcc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 0,13,20,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010100101 1101010001 1111010101 1010011110 1101010101 11110001001 1111010111 1001010110 1001111101 1011010101 0101011101 0101010101 0101010101 1101010001 1001110111 011111010 1101111101 1101110100 1101011101 10111110101 111111010 10110111001 10001110001 10111010101 0101100110 1111010011 10010010001 1111010001 0101110100 1011011001 1101000111 1011110101 1101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 486
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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