This is an analysis of the poem Voices Of The Night : The Light Of Stars that begins with:

The night is come, but not too soon;
And sinking silently, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX aBaB cbcb bdbd eaea fBfB gfgf fhfh XXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011111 110100 11000101 110101 101101110 101101 101101010 001101 00010101 010111 11011101 010101 11010111 110101 01000101 010111 11011111 110111 11000111 111101 01111011 101101 11011001 001101 010010000 110011 01110111 111101 11110011 110011 11111101 010111 11100110 1111100 11010100 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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.

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

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