This Dark Night- My Enemy by Narsinh Mehta: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem This Dark Night- My Enemy that begins with:

This dark night- my enemy, has flowed away,
The dazzling mystic Sun is up in the sky! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAabAA XXccAA bbXXAA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01111001101 010010101001 0111110011 001010010010001 01111001101 010010101001 1011111101 001010100100110 100101110001 11110101 01111001101 010010101001 0100010011 1100101010001 11101001101 11110101010 01111001101 010010101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word sky at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of This Dark Night- My Enemy;
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  • history of its creation;
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