This is an analysis of the poem His Vigil that begins with:
Close the book and dim the light,
I shall read no more to-night.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011101 1111101 1111101 1111111 0010101 1000111 1001101 1110101 1111111 0010111 1110111 1111110 1010111 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 422
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; in is repeated.
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- summary of His Vigil;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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