This is an analysis of the poem It Is Night And She Is Lonely… that begins with:

It is night and she is lonely
and I am lonely like her, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdecfgbXeddbfbaXegbXdfbhfhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00111010 1111010 0101011111010 0010101 1001010011 1101111101001 0011111011101 1001011 1101001111110 1010101 100100100011 1001111010010110 1011010111111 101110111110 10011111011 1101111001010 1100001110100 01000 110101010010 11010101 111011110010 0010 100111 1101 10101010 1011010 1111 11011010 101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1096
  • Average number of words per stanza: 202
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, her, i, me are repeated.

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

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