This is an analysis of the poem Night Coming Out Of A Garden that begins with:

Through the still air of night
Suddenly comes, alone and shrill,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdaeaaeafafghghacaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 101101 10010111 1011100101 010101 00111101001 11101010 1110110101 110111010 11001011 101001001 1001010001 1001101001 111001001 10011001 00110101 100101101 101001101 0100101 10101101 00100111 1010111 11001101 0100101 101001001 1101001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 904
  • Average number of words per stanza: 181
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • 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; and is repeated.

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

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