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

Look, the eucalyptus, the Atlas pine,
the yellowing ash, all the trees ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaacdeefghedifjakcbXcfffkfhXcfikjbljcfeklkijg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010100101 01001101 11111101 1001110101 1011111 100110110 0101101001 1110011101 010101 0110000100 11011010 10101101 01010101 11101001 111111 00110110 00110101 010010011 111101001 1111100 1001010001 1101111 11011110 01011101 1011101 1011111 111110001 10111010 1111110 01010101 10101001 1011001 01010111 100110010 101001001 0011111 10111010 111011 00101001 110111 0111101 11101101 11111111 1111111 0101110 110111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1611
  • Average number of words per stanza: 305
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • 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; year, than, to, not, that are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines year is repeated).

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  • summary of Any Night;
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