This is an analysis of the poem Hooded Night that begins with:

At night, toward dawn, all the lights of the shore have died,
And the wind moves. Moves in the dark...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXaaXbXbcac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110100111 10111001 0101000101110110 1000101101 01110100100111 101011110 1101010100010010 1010101101100 1101001101001011 1100100011 11001010000101011 10010100100 1010100011101101 1101100100 01000101011000100100 0101100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 852
  • Average number of words per stanza: 156
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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