This is an analysis of the poem Night...And Day that begins with:

If not for you,
My eyes would not be open wide......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbaA Acdef AXage Ahgdabed AgXba AhbfXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,8,5,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111 11110101 01101111 0011011 10011011 1101010011 01010010 01100 111010101001 0111 101010001001 01011 111001 10110110111 10011011 1111111101 10001001101 1111001111 111011111110 110111110 101111111001 1111100100 0011011 11111010101 11101110101 11011011100101 00111111011101 0011011 10101110101 010011101 1 11 101101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Night...And Day;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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