This is an analysis of the poem Tonight that begins with:
Had you been around tonight we could talk;
—a world of Hijal Shirish stars grass breeze all surround....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX bXbX aXcbXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101111 0101010111101 111110010110 11011011001 11011110111100 11001011110100 010001100110 111011100 1111110101 111011101110 11011110111111010 10001110101 01011010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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.
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- summary of Tonight;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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