This is an analysis of the poem Twilight that begins with:
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaaXbcbXbdacdaXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011001 10111010 1011101 01000101 01000111 10010001 010101100 01000111 0011100 1010100 10000100 1010010 1010001 11000011 10010101 1010111 01110101 01010111 01010101 110010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 635
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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