This is an analysis of the poem The Good-Night Or Blessing that begins with:

Blessings in abundance come
To the bride and to her groom ;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaadd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000101 0011001 1011011 1010001 10101011 11101111 1110111 1011101 1010101 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ye is repeated).

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  • summary of The Good-Night Or Blessing;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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