This is an analysis of the poem Nocturne Iii that begins with:

One night
one night all full of murmurings, of perfumes and music of wings;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXdeaeafGfEbXEEFFF achiiXeagedbXaiihefEEEecGhbEEgbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,32,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 1111010000111001 11 01010101100101011 101111101011011 100100001001000 10101100110100110 010100111001 11 1011 0010010111010011 1111 1110 1111 010101001 0101001 0011010 11011 11011 1101101111 1101101111 1101101111 01 0111 10010010001100011 101001111011110 1010010 111101 10101 010111 101001101101 1011 1010 001 1110101010111 1111101110101 0101010 0010101 0101000100010101 0101000100 1111 010101001 101 101 10101010101 11111110 1110 101110111 10111010000111001 011101 011101 0111011011001 10100110100011001 101011011010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1055
  • Average number of words per stanza: 168
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; one, of, night, and, they, became, by, your, it, approached, mine, with, walked are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, and, it, walked, as, approached, oh are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines one, shadow, alone, mine are repeated).

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