This is an analysis of the poem Good-Night that begins with:

THE lark is silent in his nest,
The breeze is sighing in its flight,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaAbabAaaaA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010001 01010001 11110011 01110101 11011011 01111101 11011101 01110101 11111111 11110101 01111111 01110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 474
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; night, good are repeated.

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

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