This is an analysis of the poem Twell De Night Is Pas' that begins with:

ALL de night long twell de moon goes down,
Lovin' I set at huh feet, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXadadXeXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110111 1011111 1101101101 1101101 1011101001 1001011 1011011001 1011111 101110111 1011011 1101011011 1111111 111110111 1011100 1111111011 10011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 562
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; de, i are repeated.

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