This is an analysis of the poem Voices Of The Night : Hymn To The Night that begins with:

Aspasie, trillistos.
I heard the trailing garments of the Night ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abab acac abab dbdb ddddXdada
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 10100 1101010001 110101 11010111001 000101 1101010101 1101001 0101010001 100111 1101010101 010111 1101010001 111101 0011000111 110101 01000100111 011101 1101011101 111101 11011010101 110111 1101011101 010111 0100111011 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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