This is an analysis of the poem Evenstar that begins with:
Evenstar, still evenstar
If this twilight thou dost shine... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacdcbXbdadXacaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001100 0011111 1010101 1110011 1011101 1110111 1000101 1010101 1011101 1011101 1011101 1110101 1010101 1111110 010001 1111111 1110001 10010101 1110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 566
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words on, all are repeated.
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