This is an analysis of the poem The Nocturne: Address To The Sunset that begins with:
Exquisite stillness! What serenities
Of earth and air! How bright atop the wall... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXaabXXXcbcbXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001011000 0111110101 0100101010100 1111011100 1101011100 1100101110 1 1111110111 11011101000 11010101000 01110101001 11010100101 11001110001 1101111101 1111110101 1111100100 1011110101 0011110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 743
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; how, and, he, where are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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