This is an analysis of the poem From Night And Day that begins with:

IN THE WORKSHOP
Dim watery lights gleaming on gibbering faces,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXXbXcd Xefef bebc adad XXgX eGe geX GheX XiiiiXhhii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,5,4,4,4,3,3,4,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 0011 1100110110010 10101001110 10110011110 0100 1010011011111 1001001001010110 10110010010011010 1 11010101 11010001 11111101 11010101 110101001 11111101 11110101 1100100 01010111 01110101 01000101 01010111 1 1110011 0111010 100111 100101 1111010 111110 10101010 111101 111111 1111010 111101 111110 0100101 1 110110101101 100111101111101 010010101110001 11000101110101 11010101111111 1011111110111 110110111011 1111010011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, of, i, divine, you, her, wander, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, the are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase faces connects the lines.

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