This is an analysis of the poem In A Light Time that begins with:
The alder shudders in the April winds
off the moon. No one is awake and yet ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaadeeaaXcacbabfXgdhcdXXbdchbigifXaacddbdfa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 45,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101000101 1011100111 11101 01011 00101 11011 11101 0011 10110 11010 11101 10101 00101 11101 11111 11111 11111 11010 11010 11110 01011 11101 10101 10101 10100 11010 01011 000110 11010 01101 10010 01110 01110 11110 01010 11110 01111 01111 00111 01110 00101 11011 01010 101000 00111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 998
- Average number of words per stanza: 177
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sleep is repeated).
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