This is an analysis of the poem I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark that begins with:

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day,
What hours, O what black hours we have spent... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba aacaac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111010111 11011110111 0111111111 1110110101 0101101111 10110111101 0110111101 0101110101 111111111101 1011111111 1101111101 100100111011 0111011100 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, i, me are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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