This is an analysis of the poem Night. To Lucasta that begins with:

Night! loathed jaylor of the lock'd up sun,
And tyrant-turnkey on committed day,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdd eefggffXgdgdggaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111000111 1101110101 111100110 11001111101 11011101 011010101 01100101 10011101011 01010000101 1111010101 11010100100 10010101 1100101 11101011 11001010001 1101110111 1011011101 11011000101 1111001101 11110111 11111101 10110111 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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