This is an analysis of the poem Lover's Gifts Lvi: The Evening Was Lonely that begins with:

The evening was lonely for me, and I was reading a book till my
heart became dry, and it seemed to me that beauty was a thing...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011011111100111 101110101110101 101010011011011 10100010011100 11 1001011111001000 1110010101011101 11001110111011 1101010001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 502
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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