This is an analysis of the poem Afternoon In February that begins with:
The day is ending,
The night is descending;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc dddc XdXb dddb Xade aXbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010 010010 01010 0101 11110 01110 11010 1101 011000 01010 1110 011001 11011 11011 1010 01001 01010 110010 01101 00101 11110 110100 11001 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 80
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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