This is an analysis of the poem The Radiant Dark that begins with:
Should I long that dark were fair? Say, O song.
Lacks my love aught that I should long?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbXXb XcXcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111101111 11111111 1010111 11010111 010001010 101 101011111 0111011101 1011011 1001110101 10011100101 010101 11001110101 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; that is repeated.
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