This is an analysis of the poem Hymns To The Night : 3 that begins with:

Once when I was shedding bitter tears, when, dissolved in pain, my hope was melting away, and I stood alone by the barren mound which in its narrow...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101011010111110011110110101100101101010101110110111011010100010010011101011010100111101111010011101111001001010110101100110000101101101001111110101010010110100011001100101010000101000111101010010110110101010001100101011010010101011101110101101010001010010011100110101010011110100001011101010001011100110010101010101111111111010100100100011010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1399
  • Average number of words per stanza: 251
  • Amount of lines: 1
  • Average number of symbols per line: 1399 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 251
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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