This is an analysis of the poem The Healers that begins with:

In a vision of the night I saw them,
In the battles of the night. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb cded ebXb afXf ghih XdXd gjXj idgdXgjaj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010001110 0010001 10110101101 101011 1001010 10100 10101001001 11011 010011010 1011 1110110110 1010 10011000010 01001 1100100010 01001 1111110010 110110 111110010 10110 1011000100 111 10100111100 111 1010110010 01111 11100011110 01111 11010010 11011 0010010010 11011 010010110 11111 1110100100 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; of, they, to, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase light connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Healers;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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