This is an analysis of the poem Lights Out that begins with:
Darkness expectant, discreet
Only a lamp here and there, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXaca dadabeae fgfgcXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001 1001111 1001001 1001001 1001011 10011010 1111101001 10110 1001101 10111001 1011011 1001001 1011011 10110010 110101011 10110 1111001 1011011 1101011 1001011 10101010 11110010 10111011 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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- summary of Lights Out;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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