This is an analysis of the poem In Vain that begins with:
The stars in the sky
In vain...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAXAXAbAbAXAaAbAacAaXAXXAcAXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001 01 0100010 01 01001 01 01010 01 010010 01 01001010 01 10110 01 011100 01 010101 010001 01 0100101 0110 01 0100010 11 01 01001 01 01010 01
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 591
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vain is repeated).
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