This is an analysis of the poem Approaching Night that begins with:
O take this world away from me;
Its strife I cannot bear to see,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbaaXdeeffddeee ccdccd ggaggX hhdhhd iidiid eXaeea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 01110101 01010111 11010001 01010111 11011111 01110101 01010011 01110101 011100001 11110010 11110101 01010101 11011101 11011001 01011111 11000101 11010101 11011101 11110101 11110101 101101 110111 111101 110101 111101 0000101 111111 111101 010101 110111 111111 001100 1111110 01110110 110101 01110010 1010010 1100101 111101 011101 111101 111101 110101 11111 111101 1110110 011101 111101 111111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 51
- 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; its, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words its, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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