This is an analysis of the poem The Testing Of The Sirens that begins with:
The night, dark-cloaked like a procuress, brought
him to me, willing, light as a shadow,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdefgbbahgbeXgcXgXdcXhiXbgjaXgfjjhgdXXdeihh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101001 1011011011 10101 0110101111 0011010111 1010101110 1111110111 01011 0100101101 111110111 111011101 11010 1111011010 1110111101 1111111110 10010 0100100111 0101111010 1110010010 1011 11100100111 1011011001 111011001 1111010 1111010101 01110111 1101110101 001101 1111111111 0101001111 01010101010 11010 1110100101 1011101001 0101101111 1101 11111101 11101111 01110111011 0111011111 11011 1111011111 1111111110 0111101010 111110111 01101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1734
- Average number of words per stanza: 331
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; pale, you, handsome, i, and, burning are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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