This is an analysis of the poem In The Black-Out that begins with:
Once to the stars - once to the fields
I cast my winkless eyes....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa abXXXcX decf XedeeXXe XfaddbX XeagXgXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,7,4,8,7,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10011001 111101 0101010101111 101110011111 1001110 10010001111111110101 1011101 01101100110 110 0101010010101 10010111110101 01011111100110110 01000100100111 1111010 111001 01111111001 1001110101101 111 1010100110111011 0101101011011 010100101 10010100101011101 0101010101001 10010101011 1101011001 10001011101001 01111010100111 11111011111 10101110010100011 101111101101111 1011110111 10001100101 101010101100101101 10001100010101 11110110010100101011101 01011010100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; glow, of, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, or are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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