This is an analysis of the poem Beautiful-Bosomed, O Night that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbbddbceefffgheigi jhjjjj X eaccece X akkjjlmlm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,19,6,1,7,1,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 10010011011 101001010110 10101101011001 01101 1010001001001001 1011001 11001 1001001010110 0101001101001 010010011101 10101001101 000100101001101 01001011001001 101001 0101101011011 111111 01101011 01001 1101001 11001110010110 010110110001001 110010 10110110 111110 1100101110010 1 110110101 0101111111 1100100 01001100 101101100101 10010101100 100100100101101 1 0110100111001011 01001001111 010110110100 011011010110110 110010010010010 11001111010010 111001011 11001101 010100101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of, and, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in are repeated.

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