This is an analysis of the poem God's Light-Houses that begins with:
1 When night falls on the earth, the sea
2 From east to west lies twinkling bright... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cada aece bfdf bcdc Xgeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101 1010111001 101010101 111010101 101011101 111001101 101011100 101110111 111110101 111010101 111110011 111011111 111011101 101010011 101010101 111010101 111110101 101110101 101110111 101000101 111111111 111110001 101011101 111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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