This is an analysis of the poem A Reading Of Life--With The Huntress that begins with:

Through the water-eye of night,
Midway between eve and dawn,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXcdcdefXeGbgbXXfhciicbjbjddaaaabbddhhkakXjajaGgelleffaaheheababeemdmdmm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 74,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 1101111 1010101 0110101 1110111 10010111 1110101 10010101 1010101 1110101 1010101 1000111 10100001 0110101 1011101 1010101 1110111 10010110 1101101 1010101 1010111 1010101 10001001 1110001 1010101 1010101 1010101 11101001 1011101 11010101 1110101 1010101 1110111 1011101 1010101 1010111 1010101 1010101 1110111 1011101 1010101 1010001 1010011 10001000 1010011 1010101 1010101 1010101 10100001 1011101 1110101 1110101 1010101 1010101 11010101 1010011 1010101 0010101 10001001 1011101 1011101 1010101 1000101 10100001 1110101 1010111 10100001 1110101 10101010 1111111 11101010 1110101 1111110 1010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 406
  • Amount of lines: 74
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, of, and are repeated.

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