This is an analysis of the poem On The Evening And Morning that begins with:

When Evening bids the Sun to rest retire,
Unwearied Ether sets her lamps on fire;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbb bbcc ddee bbbb ffgg eeff aahh iii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010101 10010101110 1111100101 1101000011 0111000101 1111010101 1101011101 10010100101 0100101010101 0100101010001 0100001010001 010001000101 1100100101 1001010111 1001000101 0101011101 1101010101 1101110101 0101110101 1101000101 01001011111 1100010101 0101011111 1101110001 0111100101 0101010101 1101010101 1101000101 1001010101 0101010101 110101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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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