This is an analysis of the poem The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue that begins with:

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1 Farewell! I go to sleep; but when... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bb c XdXdee a ff c Xgbgdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,6,1,2,1,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 111110111 1011011101 1 111011111 110000111101 101111111110 101011101 11101001111 11001110111 10 101111111 1110101111 1 111111101 10011101101 111011101010 1110111011 11010101101 10111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.

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