This is an analysis of the poem Voices Of The Night : Footsteps Of Angels that begins with:

When the hours of Day are numbered,
And the voices of the Night ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXb acXc adad bebe fdfd Xghg Xghg hiXi adadXfafa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001110 1010001 101011100 0010101 10101110 1110111 110010100 1010101 10100010 1010101 00100110 1010111 10111110 1010101 10111110 1000101 10101110 10101001 10111110 1011111 10001010 11011110 11111011 10101010 001110011 1110001 10101011 1010101 11111011 0111101 10111111 1010001 10111010 0010101 10101010 1000101 11101110 1111101 01101010 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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