This is an analysis of the poem Night (O You Whose Countenance) that begins with:
Night. O you whose countenance, dissolved
in deepness, hovers above my face....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX cdba XcXa abXX Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110001 010100111 1110100101 010101010 11101010011 10011 00100010100 0100101100 11010010111 101010011 11100100010 110101 1101011101010 10101 1101001011001 110001 0101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Night (O You Whose Countenance);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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