This is an analysis of the poem Night Winds that begins with:

The slender moon in its silvery sheen,
The golden stars with the blue between ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101001001 010100101 0010101 110111 0010010100 1010101101 00100101 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word sigh at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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