This is an analysis of the poem Night that begins with:
A pale enchanted moon is sinking low
Behind the dunes that fringe the shadowy lea, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef XeXe XgXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010101 01011101001 1101011101 0101001 1101111101 1011010101 1101011001 100101 1111010101 1111011101 1111110111 110101 11010001000 0111110101 1000011000 011101 0101010011 11010100111 1100010001 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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.
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