This is an analysis of the poem Instability. From The Spanish.—sixteenth Century that begins with:
When the day is brightest,
Darkness draweth near;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc XdXdeeeeXfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 10101 101010 10111 1010010 100111 1111110 110100 111010 10001101 111010 1111101 1001010 1111001 001001110 110111 1101010 1110001 1101010 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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