This is an analysis of the poem Fragment Of Song—the Night Was Still that begins with:
THE NIGHT was still, and o'er the hill
The moon shone on the castle wa';... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXaXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111001 01110101 01011111 01010101 11001101 11010101 1101001001 1100011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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