This is an analysis of the poem Night that begins with:
I thank thee, Father, that the night is near
When I this conscious being may resign;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccdXdXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010101 1101010101 1101110101 1011011101 0111010111 01001010001 1101110101 1111011101 11111100111 1101110101 11111100001 1111010110 1101010111 1110001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 605
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; too, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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