This is an analysis of the poem The Night And The Rose that begins with:

I have many an hour with you worn out and enjoyed
and never has an hour with you bored me for a moment....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbbbbbbbbbcacXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101100111101 110111001111010 111001011 111011010101 110001101101101 1110111101101111 111011101011101 1110111101101 1111110010110001 11111111011 1111111111111111 1010101100111001 1010011011 11111111111110101010 01100010101101000111 11010110110011101 11110100101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 996
  • Average number of words per stanza: 213
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, with, and, as, hour, to, that, for, rose, long are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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  • summary of The Night And The Rose;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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