This is an analysis of the poem Thou Leanest To The Shell Of Night that begins with:
Thou leanest to the shell of night,
Dear lady, a divining ear. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 11000101 01110001 11111101 10010101 00110001 1101 00011101 10111001 11010100 11111111 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of is repeated.
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