This is an analysis of the poem Hymns To The Night : 1 that begins with:

Before all the wondrous shows of the widespread space around him, what living, sentient thing loves not the all-joyous light -- with its colors, its...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011010100111011110101110110100100111000010101000100100101010010010101000101011011110001101001010101010011011010011000111101010001110101101010100110110101001010010101010111001000010010100101100101001001010100100010001 011100100100010010110110011111000100100101011011100101010111000100100010001001010110111110011101011011101010011010100111010110011001001011100010100 1011111110100111101101011101010011111011011010101001111011011100100101100010101001101100001111101101111011000101110110101010101010000010111100110110111011000100010101101011101110010111010011010010101001101100111001110010110111001110111010011011011001110101001011101001001010010001001001100010010010001011110111000100101001111011111111111110110101010101011011101011101100111110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1009
  • Average number of words per stanza: 176
  • Amount of lines: 3
  • Average number of symbols per line: 1009 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 176
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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