This is an analysis of the poem Returning, We Hear The Larks that begins with:
Sombre the night is.
And though we have our lives, we know ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abc bdd XXa XXXXaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 11111111 1100111 1011011101 01010110111 101011 111111 1101100011 1010011001010 111001 110011 11101 10111101 11001 1011111111011 101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; we, joy are repeated.
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