This is an analysis of the poem After Sunset that begins with:
VOCAL yet voiceless, lingering, lambent, white
With the wide wings of evening on the fell,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaacca ddeaea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10110100101 0011010101 01010010101 0101100101 1101100101 011011101101 0100010101 1101010101 0001011111 100101101001 01001011001 01010010111 10011100111 11101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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