This is an analysis of the poem Hymns To The Night : 4 that begins with:

Now I know when will come the last morning -- when the Light no more scares away Night and Love -- when sleep shall be without waking, and but one...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a X b cdcdXebeXeaeXfefgdedgbhbXaha
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,28,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101101011110111111100110111010011101001001011100111000010111010101011101000010101010011000101111010011111001111101001001110100011000010011011101000100010001110101001 1111110110001000011111110010101000110111000100001010101101010110111011010101111101001001111000100101 110110111010010100110101111011010100111001001110110101111101101001100110001010001110110101010101101001010100010101001010101111011001011101100101010111101010011111011111111101101101101010100101101001001010100111101110110010010110111010110110010111101101101000110111011001101110111000100101110101011110110111111011100101011011011101011011011000101101000110101100101000100101001111110110111011101101010111101001011111011011110101000101111010101010010010110101111011100111010010101001011111010110010110010011 10110 1111 010110 11101 100110 1111 101010 0111 11010 11111 110010 1101 110110 11101 011011 1101 111111 1101 110011 1111 11010 11101 010110 0111 111011 01101 101010 111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 947
  • Average number of words per stanza: 170
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 121 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 22
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, thy, to, thou, me, it, into, in, i, with, not, love, that, but, what, world, my, he, she, be, night, our, where, has, when, who, thee, as, one, light are repeated.

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