This is an analysis of the poem When Night Comes that begins with:
To the tune of "Telling My Most Intimate Feelings"
When night comes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXaXXXcccabXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010011100100 111 111101 1011110 01100 110101 11111 11011 0110 11010 1001011010 01111 0110111 11110101 11110110010 1110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; yet, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines distant is repeated).
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