This is an analysis of the poem Skin Of Light that begins with:

The skin of light enveloping this world lacks depth and I can actually see the black night of all these
similar bodies beneath the trembling veil...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010100011111110001011011 1001001010011101100011100100 11010111010101000101101010 100111110111011111111110100 011010101011010011001011101 00011001110101111110101 1101101110100101110111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 688
  • Average number of words per stanza: 140
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 97 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 20
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, night, and are repeated.

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