This is an analysis of the poem Twilight that begins with:
I love thee, Twilight! as thy shadows roll,
The calm of evening steals upon my soul,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeeffeeccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111111111 0101010111 10001010001 11010010101 1111111101 11110100011 11001011101 0101010001 1111010101 11110010111 1101011001 1001010111 1111111101 110010100101 1001010101 1001010101 01000100101 0101000101 1011111111 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 851
- Average number of words per stanza: 150
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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