This is an analysis of the poem It’s Good To Feel You Are Close To Me that begins with:

It’s good to feel you are close to me in the night, love,
invisible in your sleep, intently nocturnal,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX babX XXa XXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0001111010011 0100011010010 11010110 1010101 0111111 111001011 1010110101011 1011101001 1010011001001 100011001 0010101011101 1001101000101 1001001111 0101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of It’s Good To Feel You Are Close To Me;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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